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Welfare use more common than many think Many Americans believe that welfare use happens to someone else, to people outside of mainstream society. But a study published in a recent issue of Social Work casts considerable doubt on that notion, finding that nearly two-thirds of all Americans between 20 and 65 will at some point turn to a public assistance program. Full story More Stories
				Introducing New Faculty The following are among the new faculty members on campus. Others will be introduced periodically in this space. Steven M. Devine, M.D., joins the School of Medicine as assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine. His research interests include the use of stem cells to treat cancer and other diseases. He earned his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts in 1987 and completed his residency at Michael Reese Medical Center in 1990. He pursued a fellowship in hematology-oncology at the University of Chicago Hospital and Emory University Hospital. He comes to Washington University from the University of Illinois at Chicago where he directed the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program. Shaorong Zhang, M.D., joins the School of Medicine faculty as a research assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases after coming to the medical school in 1995 as a postdoctoral fellow. His research interests include the immunopathology and molecular diagnostics of the parasitic disease filariasis. He earned his medical degree and trained in immunology and parasitology from Jiangxi Medical College and served his residency at Huangbu Central Hospital, Jiangxi, in China. Prior to coming to the University, Zhang managed a World Health Organization/World Bank schistosomiasis control program for the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Health in China. Geoff Childs, Ph.D., joins the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. He earned a doctorate from Indiana University in 1998 and a bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado in 1987. He presently is completing a three-year Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Anthropological Demography at Australian National University. His research interests are anthropological demography, historical demography, fertility, aging, and family systems. He works in Tibet and Nepal. C. Warren, Ph.D., joins the School of Medicine faculty as assistant research scientist in the Department of Genetics. He is director of the Microarray Core Facility at the Genome Sequencing Center. His research interests include gene expression, genome biology and bioinformatics. He earned a bachelor's degree from Oklahoma State University in 1984, a master's from Clemson University in 1986 and a doctorate from the University of Missouri in 1990. He comes to the School of Medicine from Incyte Genomics, where he led a multidisciplinary group that specialized in genomic-based research services.

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