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Washington University School of Medicine Digital Commons@Becker Washington University Record Washington University Publications 9-6-2002 Washington University Record, September 6, 2002 Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/record Recommended Citation "Washington University Record, September 6, 2002" (2002). Washington University Record. Book 940. http://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/record/940 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Washington University Publications at Digital Commons@Becker. It has been accepted for inclusion in Washington University Record by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Becker. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Medical News: Pediatric AIDS unit Arts: British poet laureate Andrew Motion Washington People: Garrett A. Duncan is offers children with HIV new hope to speak for The Writing Program Sept. 10 "a terrific asset as a teacher and colleague" 8 Sept. 6, 2002 Volume 27 No. 2 \fehington University in St Louis MetroLink expansion to impact Hilltop traffic The real work begins next pus, get people to and from cam- and Big Bend behind Small Forest Park Parkway to temporarily close; spring, when Forest Park pus. We've worked very closely Group Housing so people who Parkway will be closed from with all the agencies in this area to want to go west to Big Bend will construction to take 18 months-2 years Brentwood Boulevard to at least coordinate our plans, and we think be able to." DeBalivere Avenue and maybe we have a plan that will work." And because Forsyth BY ANDY CLENDENNEN underground utility lines will be even to Union Boulevard. Included in the plan are con- Boulevard now will see heavier relocated near the intersection of A temporary roadway will be cessions to allow limited traffic traffic from people trying to People, get ready — MetroLink Big Bend Boulevard and the available to allow people to enter whenever possible on the parkway. bypass the parkway, talks are is coming to campus. parkway," said Steve Hoffner, the parking garages on the north "From Big Bend through ongoing with the city of Clayton Preliminary work will begin assistant vice chancellor for stu- end of campus. Throop Drive, it will be one-way for a temporary traffic signal at by the end of September to bring dents and director of operations. Construction is expected to east bound," Hoffner said, "and Forsyth and Hoyt Drive. MetroLink past the Hilltop "There will be some traffic take from 18 months to two years. from Skinker Boulevard to When the construction is Campus on the north side of restrictions on the parkway "It's not going to be a pretty Throop it will be two-way traffic. complete, two underground Forest Park Parkway. beginning in late September, but picture for a couple of years," We are working with St. Louis MetroLink stations will have been "The first thing people will see those should be temporary, a Hoffner said. "It will be a chal- County to hopefully install a tem- erected; one at the corner of is mid- to late-September when couple of months." lenge to get people around cam- porary traffic signal at Snow Way See MetroLink, Page 5 Peripheral nerve regeneration is Assembly promoted by gel Series BY TONY FITZPATRICK Sept. 11 speakers It's sticky, it's a gel and it comes in a tube, but this is no greasy kids' open fall schedule stuff. Rather, it's a novel delivery system for peripheral nerve regen- BY BARBARA REA eration that could have implica- tions for successful stem cell deliv- A Pulitzer Prize-winning ery and spinal cord repair. journalist who directed his Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, Ph.D., paper's coverage of Sept. 11 and a assistant professor of biomedical Ground Zero volunteer will share engineering, has designed a sys- the podium during a special tem that employs a nerve guide Assembly Series event marking tube filled with a gel containing the one-year anniversary of the growth factor proteins that stimu- terrorist attack on the United late nerve regeneration. Also part States. of the package are strategically The event, which is the first placed sugars and peptides for lecture of the Assembly Series' fall binding in the gel matrix. season, will be held at 11 a.m. The system has promoted Sept. 11 in Graham Chapel. peripheral As national editor for The nerve regenera- Boston Globe, Kenneth J. Cooper tion in prelimi- is responsible for the paper's nary rat studies. domestic news coverage. It is The clinical from this vantage point that he gold standard will share the challenges inherent for peripheral in covering the unprecedented nerve regenera- disaster as it unfolded. tion involves Sarah M. Kaufman, a recent taking a nerve University graduate who now Sakiyama-Elbert from a donor lives and works in New York City, will discuss her experience as a site on the Above, freshman Sheief Gaber (left) volunteer near Ground Zero. injured person's body and sewing and senior Annabelle For most of Cooper's 25 years the donor nerve in between the De St. Maurice pull weeds at two ends of the injured nerve. Hamilton Elementary School Aug. 31 in journalism, he has focused on Though the nerve is dead, it pro- during the fourth annual Service government, politics and social vides a pathway that can guide the First, an initiative that introduces issues. A University alumnus, his regeneration of the injured nerve. students to community service. first job was with The St. Louis This is problematic because it More than 1,000 students attended American, then the St. Louis Post- creates an injury to be addressed the event, helping to clean, update Dispatch. He left St. Louis in 1980 at the donor site, and there is a and renovate eight St. Louis public See Series, Page 6 limit to the amount of donor tis- schools and two University City sue you can use from a patient. schools. Projects ranged from paint- Sept. 11 — Furthermore, there is no guaran- ing to decorating bulletin boards to tee that the donated nerve will gardening. Meanwhile, at right, sen- One year later come to life in a new site. iors Derek Lonse and Kate Kelly take a break from painting the play- Another alternative is the use The Assembly Series program of cadaver nerves, which runs a ground at Washington Montessori School to paint each other's faces. dedicated to the anniversary of See Nerves, Page 2 Sept. 11 is the first of two events planned by the University that day. An evening program, set for 7 p.m. Family tree Rare bone disorder links gene deletion in two Navajo patients in Brookings Quadrangle, will offer another opportunity for reflection and remembrance. The program will BY GILA Z. RECKESS The research team found that both vide insight into the cause of JPD, but include brief remarks from members patients are completely missing the also shed light on the control of bone of the University community, a Two seemingly unrelated Native gene for a recently discovered protein metabolism in general," said lead inves- choral and dance performance and a Americans have one painful thing in called osteoprotegerin, known to pro- tigator Michael P. Whyte, M.D., profes- candlelight vigil. common: juvenile Paget's disease (JPD), tect bone. The study, which appeared in sor of medicine, of pediatrics and of an extremely rare bone metabolism disor- a recent issue of The New England genetics, and director of the Center for In addition, the University will host a der. Researchers in the School of Medicine Journal of Medicine, is the first to iden- Metabolic Bone Disease and Molecular blood drive from 5-10 p.m. that day and Shriners Hospitals for Children have tify a genetic cause for JPD. Research at Shriners. "Understanding in Friedman Lounge in wohl Student discovered that these two patients also "By identifying this genetic defect in how the skeleton forms and breaks Center. (See story, Page 2.) Whyte share a unique genetic defect. two people, our results not only pro- See Disorder, Page 3 2 RECORD WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS Work, Families and Public Policy series scheduled to begin Sept 9 BY JESSICA N. ROBERTS Ph.D., the Edward A. Howry Professor at the University of Faculty and graduate stu- Iowa College of Law: "Race, dents from this and other Kinship Care, and Adoption: St. Louis-area universities Does Legal Status Matter?" with an interest in topics relat- Oct. 21: Jeremy ing to labor, households, health Greenwood, Ph.D., professor care, law and social welfare are of economics at the University invited to take part in a series of of Rochester: "Engines of Monday brown-bag luncheon Liberation"; seminars to be held biweekly Nov. 4: Daniel Hamermesh, through December. Ph.D., the Edward Everett Hale Now in its seventh year, Centennial Professor of the "Work, Families and Public Economics at the University of Policy" series features one- Texas: "Routine"; hour presentations on current Nov. 18: Robert A. Pollak, research interests of faculty Ph.D., the Hernreich from across the University and Distinguished Professor of from other local and national Economics in Arts & Sciences universities. and the Olin School: "Family The presentations, which are Bargaining and Long Term from noon-1 p.m. in Eliot Hall, Care"; and Room 300, are followed by a Dec 2: Timothy McBride, half-hour discussion period. Ph.D., associate professor in Robert A. Pollak, Ph.D., the the departments of economic, Hernreich Distinguished public policy administration Professor of Economics in Arts and gerontology at the & Sciences and the Olin School University of Missouri- of Business, has been the lead St.

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