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Lisa Baldez, studies women's roles in wars, rebellions and social movements |
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Scott Fraser to give Oliver Lowry lecture April 17 Scott E. Fraser, Ph.D., director of the Biological Imaging Center at the Beckman Institute of the California Institute of Technology, will present the 2002 Oliver Lowry Lecture in Bioorganic Chemistry at 4 p.m. April 17 in Moore Auditorium. It is located on the first floor of the North Building, 4580 Scott Ave. Full story Siteman Cancer Center co-sponsoring race The Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine is co-sponsoring the June 22 Komen St. Louis Race for the Cure. If Washington University students, employees, family and friends register as members of the Siteman Race Team by May 28, they receive a Siteman Team T-shirt, the Komen Race packet and pay a discounted registration fee of $16. Those who register for the race as Siteman Team members also will be automatically registered in a drawing for a $250 gift certificate at the St. Louis Galleria. Full story |
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and Ornitz named alumni endowed professors Jeanne M. Nerbonne, Ph.D., and David M. Ornitz, M.D., Ph.D., each have been named an Alumni Endowed Professor of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology in the School of Medicine.
Alumni professorships combine unrestricted gifts from medical alumni and former house staff with gifts from friends of the School of Medicine.
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Patient-safety effort includes School of Medicine, BJC The School of Medicine and BJC HealthCare are participating in a national research initiative to reduce medical errors and improve patient safety. The $50 million initiative by the Department of Health and Human Services
is funding 94 projects throughout the country. It represents the federal
government's largest single investment to address patient deaths related
to medical errors. Two of those grants, totaling $3.3 million, were awarded
to the University and BJC. The one-year grants were provided by the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality to fund the first phase of a multi-year
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