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Picturing Our Past Work, Families and Public Policy series scheduled to begin Sept. 9 Faculty and graduate students from this and other St. Louis-area universities with an interest in topics relating to labor, households, health care, law and social welfare are invited to take part in a series of Monday brown-bag luncheon seminars to be held biweekly through December. Full story More Stories
				Teaching community involvement Freshman Sheief Gaber (left) and senior Annabelle De St. Maurice pull weeds at Hamilton Elementary School Aug. 31 during the fourth annual Service First, an initiative that introduces students to community service. View in full Sept. 11 speakers open Assembly Series' fall schedule A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who directed his paper's coverage of Sept. 11 and a Ground Zero volunteer will share the podium during a special Assembly Series event marking the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attack on the United States. The event, which is the first lecture of the Assembly Series' fall season, will be held at 11 a.m. Sept. 11 in Graham Chapel. As national editor for The Boston Globe, Kenneth J. Cooper is responsible for the paper's domestic news coverage. It is from this vantage point that he will share the challenges inherent in covering the unprecedented disaster as it unfolded. Sarah M. Kaufman, a recent University graduate who now lives and works in New York City, will discuss her experience as a volunteer near Ground Zero. Full story				MetroLink expansion to impact Hilltop traffic Forest Park Parkway to temporarily close; construction to take 18 months-2 years People, get ready -- MetroLink is coming to campus. Preliminary work will begin by the end of September to bring MetroLink past the Hilltop Campus on the north side of Forest Park Parkway. "The first thing people will see is mid- to late-September when underground utility lines will be relocated near the intersection of Big Bend Boulevard and the parkway," said Steve Hoffner, assistant vice chancellor for students and director of operations. "There will be some traffic restrictions on the parkway beginning in late September, but those should be temporary, a couple of months." Full story Peripheral nerve regeneration is promoted by gel Sakiyama-Elbert It's sticky, it's a gel and it comes in a tube, but this is no greasy kids' stuff. Rather, it's a novel delivery system for peripheral nerve regeneration that could have implications for successful stem cell delivery and spinal cord repair. Full story Rare bone disorder links gene deletion in two Navajo patients Whyte Two seemingly unrelated Native Americans have one painful thing in common: juvenile Paget's disease (JPD), an extremely rare bone metabolism disorder. Researchers in the School of Medicine and Shriners Hospitals for Children have discovered that these two patients also share a unique genetic defect. Full story

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