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Rendering of a human kidney”Most experts believe that kidney disease is caused by an immune response against the kidney,” explains principal investigator Andrey S. Shaw, M.D., professor of pathology and immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. “But our evidence suggests that defects that are intrinsic to the kidney also contribute to kidney failure.”

Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis recognized the achievements of five of its alumni at a ceremony and reception May 16 in the Arts & Sciences Laboratory Science Building on campus.

Carl M. Bender, Ph.D., and Thomas A. Woolsey, M.D., professors at Washington University in St. Louis, have been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Bender and Woolsey are among 184 U.S. and Canadian Guggenheim fellows selected this year from more than 3,200 applicants for awards totaling $6,750,000. Guggenheim fellows, which include artists, scholars and scientists, are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.

WUSTL photo servicesNancy Meister has lunch with Worawan Arparatana as part of the Speak English With Us program

TempletonThe notion of race in humans is completely a social concept without any biological basis, according to a biologist at Washington University in St. Louis. There are not enough genetic differences between groups of people to say that there are sub-lineages (races) of humans, said Alan R. Templeton, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. On the other hand, there are different races in many other species, including chimpanzees, our closest evolutionary relatives. Templeton was part of a recent St. Louis panel discussion that previewed the first episode of the National Public Television’s “Race: The Power of an Allusion” series running nationally on May 4, 11, and 18 (check local stations for times).

Philip TidwellArchitecture junior Philip Tidwell has won the 2003 Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectural Design Excellence. Tidwell’s essay was selected from a field of 130 entries by students representing 31 countries and 81 undergraduate architecture programs on six continents.

Photo by Joe AngelesWith Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton at her side, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, Ph.D., outlines her views on global policy issues.The United States could suffer long-term consequences if it is not careful about how it uses its strength, former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright said Friday at Washington University in St. Louis. “The extent of American power has created an opportunity for us to make our nation more secure within a world that is healthier, richer and more peaceful than it has ever been,” Albright said. “But if we are not prudent in exercising that power, we will create resentments that will make it much harder in the long run to achieve our goals.”

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