Herbert W. "Skip" Virgin, M.D., Ph.D.,
seeks causes for disease
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Imagine where you would be without the printed word.
No baseball box scores in the morning over coffee. No maps to help you find your way. And no best-selling books to take along on your next vacation.
Will you be rich or poor? Probabilities estimated Despite the strong emphasis placed on income in the United States, little is known about the likelihood of adults experiencing poverty or affluence in their lifetime. Now, a study in the winter issue of Social Science Quarterly finds that Americans have a roughly 50-50 chance of experiencing the American dream or the American nightmare.
"America can be characterized as a 50-50 society, where the chance of experiencing one economic extreme versus the other is roughly 50-50," said Mark R. Rank, Ph.D., professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work and first author of the study.
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lizards Evolution, development blended in unique study Sometimes things fall into place against all odds. That's the case with a group of researchers on the Hilltop and Medical campuses who've won a Packard Foundation grant of $1 million over five years to launch a unique study of evolution and development.
To illustrate it, consider Jeremy Gibson-Brown, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences and one of the researchers involved in the project comprising top-notch geneticists and evolutionary biologists. Gibson-Brown had just become a faculty member in the summer of 2000 when he took an urgent phone call from new colleague Jonathan B. Losos, Ph.D., professor of biology, at Gibson-Brown's research site along the Florida gulf coast.
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Newborn lungs; Respiratory illness focus of research effort
New School of Medicine research could help physicians more quickly determine which infants will improve and which will worsen so that necessary therapy can be started as early as possible. The work is being supported by two grants totaling $4.6 million from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
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