The Office of Human Resources has announced a new enhancement to the Long Term Disability Plan that offers faculty and staff the opportunity to purchase at a reasonable monthly premium coverage for a shorter waiting period before the start of LTD benefits.
A $2.5 million grant will continue the University’s work with local AIDS service organizations and with local health departments to encourage HIV testing.
Arts & Sciences graduate students Jeff Cameron and Megan Daschbach have been chosen to participate in the 57th Meeting of Nobel Laureates July 1-6 in Lindau, Germany.
The School of Law will host a workshop titled “The Effects of Domestic Violence on Children” from 8:30 a.m.-noon July 12 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall.
A $450,000 grant from The Henry Luce Foundation will boost the experiential learning opportunities provided by the Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic, through which students provide pro bono legal and technical services to environmental and community organizations.
Scientists probing the details of viral infection have discovered an intriguing surprise: in mice, herpes viruses hijack their host cells’ tools for fixing DNA damage and use those tools to enhance their own reproduction.
Listed below are this month’s featured news stories.
• Stress and Alzheimer’s (week of June 6)
• Dietary calcium is better (week of June 13)
• Treating prostate problems (week of June 20)
• Fireworks safety (week of June 27)
The list of reasons you shouldn’t smoke has gotten longer. Researchers at the School of Medicine are reporting that smoking interferes with ligament healing. Each year in the United States there are more than 20 million reported ligament injuries, and MCL injuries — which affect a ligament supporting the knee joint — are the most common. Studying mice with MCL injuries, the team discovered cigarette smoking impairs the recruitment of cells to the injury site and delays healing following ligament repair surgery.
Women who get most of their daily calcium from food have healthier bones than women whose calcium comes mainly from supplemental tablets, say researchers at the School of Medicine. Surprisingly, this is true even though the supplement takers have higher average calcium intake.