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Picturing Our Past Trustees meet, hear report from Wrighton The Board of Trustees met Oct. 4 to hear about planning on the future of biomedical research and to receive reports from Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and from the board's standing committees. Full story More Stories
				A thunderous ovation A thunderous ovation David Lawton, Ph.D. (left), chair and professor of English in Arts & Sciences, joins the audience in welcoming Indian-born novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie to Graham Chapel for an interview-style talk Oct. 3. View in full Switch determines if chemotherapy kills healthy cells Weintraub School of Medicine investigators have discovered a mechanism that helps explain why healthy cells are not killed by DNA-damaging cancer chemotherapy drugs. The findings are published in the Oct. 4 issue of the journal Cell. DNA-damaging agents are the most common kind of drugs used to treat cancer. Like most chemotherapy drugs, these are carried in the blood and travel throughout the body. Full story John Lockwood, PH.D., assistant professor of computer science, examines a stand-alone fierwall system in the School of Engineering & Applied Science's Applied Research Laboratory. Hardware adds features much faster Healing cuts, splinting broken arms, responding to major traumas. Sounds like a tough job, but it's all in a day's work for a dedicated group of University students. The Emergency Support Team (EST), a student-run volunteer organization under the auspices of the Student Health and Counseling Service, has existed on the Hilltop Campus for nearly 25 years. The group always has had one goal: help those in need. Full story				Tectonic paradise Research program in Japan initiated Dyke For researchers, the islands of Japan are a geological paradise -- blessed by numerous hot springs and plagued by frequent earthquakes and active volcanoes -- all the result of tectonic plates converging and shifting underneath the Earth's crust. But continental plates weren't the only things converging in Japan this summer. For 33 days, a group of American students and Japanese researchers came together to participate in a new program focusing on advanced civil engineering technology. Full story Emergency Support Team members (from left) Mike Schwartzwald, Vince Lai and Adam Felsenstein attend to "patient" and fellow team member Vani Sundaram during a recent training event. Student medics provide invaluable service Healing cuts, splinting broken arms, responding to major traumas. Sounds like a tough job, but it's all in a day's work for a dedicated group of University students. The Emergency Support Team (EST), a student-run volunteer organization under the auspices of the Student Health and Counseling Service, has existed on the Hilltop Campus for nearly 25 years. The group always has had one goal: help those in need. Full story

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