A protein that stimulates the brain to awaken from sleep may be a target for preventing Alzheimer’s disease, a study by School of Medicine researchers suggests. David M. Holtzman, MD, head of the Department of Neurology, is the study’s senior author.

Smart writing on timely topics for the widest possible audience. This is the mission of The Common Reader, a new journal launched this fall by Gerald Early, PhD. Early (right) and Managing Editor Ben Fulton discuss The Common Reader, online journalism and the continuing value of ink and paper.

​​A team of biomedical engineers in the School of Engineering & Applied Science has developed the world’s fastest receive-only 2-D camera, a device that can capture events up to 100 billion frames per second. The team is led by Lihong Wang​, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering.

William Hawkins, MD, a noted pancreatic cancer surgeon, has been named chief of the Section of Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic and Gastrointestinal Surgery and the Neidorff Family and Robert C. Packman Professor at the School of Medicine.