Browner to speak on gender, health and reproduction

Medical anthropologist Carole H. Browner, Ph.D., will speak on “Gender, Health and Reproduction: Transnational Perspectives” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge. The lecture is part of the new Initiative on Gender, Sexuality, and Health.

Campus parking solution sought by Olin students

The Danforth Campus has more than 12,000 students, 4,500-plus faculty and staff and 5,168 parking spaces. Teams of Olin Business School students have been crunching the numbers since December in hopes of solving the campus parking challenge and winning the grand prize of $5,000 in the first Olin Sustainability Case Competition. Four teams compete in the final round Friday, Feb. 12. 

Talking evolution for the Assembly Series

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Edward J. Larson will present, “From Dayton to Dover: A Brief History of the Evolution Teaching Controversy in the U.S.” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, in Louderman Hall, Room 458. The Assembly Series program is this year’s Thomas S. Hall Lecture.

A circuitous route

Serendipity is a word that Kathleen K. Bucholz, Ph.D., uses a lot as she describes her career path. She didn’t really start out to be a psychiatric epidemiologist or to study how genes and environment intersect to contribute to problems with alcohol. In fact, for much of college, science was an afterthought.

Chancellor addresses WUSTL community on financial strengths

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton addresses the WUSTL community, giving a  summary of results of the plan to assure the university’s financial strength and continue its mission of education, research, patient care, and service.

Notables

Thomas J. Hannan, DVM, research instructor in pathology and immunology, has received a three-year, $355,942 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research titled “Mucosal Immune Checkpoints in Chronic Bacterial Cystitis.” … Rakesh Nagarajan, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pathology and immunology, has received a three-year, $106,221 subaward through the University […]

Infection-fighting antibodies made in plants as effective as costlier conventional version

Antibody plant
The first head-to-head comparison of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies produced from plants versus the same antibodies produced from mammalian cells has shown that plant-produced antibodies can fight infection equally well. Scientists conducted the comparison as a test of the potential for treating disease in developing nations with the significantly less expensive plant-based production technique.