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Medicine & Health

Siteman: On the front lines in the fight against HPV

A boy getting a vaccine
Most cancers caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) are preventable with a vaccine. Yet the infection is responsible for 27,000 cancer diagnoses each year in the U.S. Siteman Cancer Center and the School of Medicine is joining with the 68 other National Cancer Institute-Designated Cancer Centers to promote HPV vaccination and reduce that number.

Three biomedical engineering professors elected as AIMBE Fellows

Three professors from the School of Engineering & Applied Science have been elected to the 2016 College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, representing the top 2 percent of medical and biological engineers in the country.

Join weekly discussion on technology entrepreneurship

Associate Provost Dedric Carter is teaching a course on technology entrepreneurship this semester and holding a weekly online discussion delving deeper into that topic. Join the conversation on Fuse today.
Arts & Culture

Art through the lens of a drone

Artwork from a drone.
We are living at the dawn of the drone age. In January, the Kemper Art Museum will present “To See Without Being Seen: Contemporary Art and Drone Warfare.” The exhibition raises timely questions about power, technology, surveillance and fear.
Campus & Community

Olin School dean search committee formed

Provost Holden Thorp has appointed a nine-member committee to identify candidates for the position of dean of the Olin Business School, Olin Dean Mahendra R. Gupta announced this month that he will conclude his deanship at the end of the academic year, June 30, 2016.