Loyola has appointed Anthony E. Jones as the new Vice President of Enrollment Management after a lengthy and nationwide search for candidates. “The search process was extremely thorough and confidential,” Assistant Provost Liz Rainey said. “As a member of the president’s cabinet, the VP of enrollment management directly reports to the president and is a.
The American Bar Association recently adopted a new accreditation standard for law schools (public or private) requiring them to have policies in place that protect academic freedom and freedom of expression for faculty, staff and students. The standard applies to all persons teaching law school courses regardless of status and applies to research activities, publications,.
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The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biology and Biomedicine has gone in this thirteenth edition to David Julius, from the University of California, San Francisco, and Ardem Patapoutian, from the Scripps Institute, La Jolla (United States), for identifying the receptors that enable us to sense temperature, pain and pressure. Temperature, pain and pressure are part of our sense of touch, perhaps the least understood of the five main senses of humans, read the opening words of the citation. Julius and Patapoutian provided a molecular and neural basis for thermosensation and mechanosensation.
This line of research holds out exciting medical possibilities, because it sheds light on how to reduce chronic and acute pain associated with a range of diseases, trauma and their treatments. In fact, several pharmaceutical laboratories are working to identify molecules that act on these receptors with the aim of treating different fo