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  • Federal Plan to Modernize Medical Trials’ Rules Would Be Boon to Universities
    Chronicle of Higher Education

    Federal Plan to Modernize Medical Trials’ Rules Would Be Boon to Universities

     

    After more than four years of work, the finish line appears to be in sight for a governmentwide process to modernize the rules governing human participation in medical trials. The results appear to offer substantial benefits for many university researchers. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a 519-page set of regulations on Wednesday, the result of work with 15 other federal departments and agencies dating to 2011. The document represents the first comprehensive overhaul of the regulations in three decades.

    Sep 2, 2015

    Rutgers: 20 Percent of Undergraduate Women Had Unwanted Sexual Contact
    The Washington Post

    Rutgers: 20 Percent of Undergraduate Women Had Unwanted Sexual Contact

     

    Twenty percent of undergraduate women who answered a survey last fall at Rutgers University said they experienced unwanted sexual contact in their time as students, the New Jersey state school reported Wednesday. The finding, together with other recent research, reinforces growing evidence of the breadth of the problem of college sexual assault. In a Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll published in June, 1 in 5 young women who had attended a residential college in the past four years reported being sexually assaulted.

    Sep 2, 2015

    Penn Team Finds a Source for Chemo Nausea in the Brain
    Philadelphia Inquirer

    Penn Team Finds a Source for Chemo Nausea in the Brain

     

    Bart De Jonghe of the School of Nursing is highlighted for researching the role the brain plays in nausea that follows chemotherapy treatment with cisplatin.

    Sep 1, 2015

    Bryn Mawr Names Residence Hall After First African-American Alum
    Philadelphia Inquirer

    Bryn Mawr Names Residence Hall After First African-American Alum

     

    Bryn Mawr College on Monday named a new residence hall that also will serve as its Black Cultural Center after Enid Cook, the college’s first African-American alumna. Cook, a 1931 graduate who majored in chemistry and biology, was denied on-campus housing and lived off campus with a local family. After earning her doctorate from the University of Chicago, she became a lecturer in that school’s department of medicine and later served as the chief of the public health laboratory and a professor of microbiology at the University of Panama. She died in 1989.

    Sep 1, 2015