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City councilors agreed unanimously this week to honor Lillian Kiernan Brown—a.k.a. former burlesque dancer Lily Ann Rose—on April 10, 2009, which is now officially “Lily Ann Rose...
According to Kiernan R. Mathews, one of the assistant directors of COACHE, Harvard administrators received the study’s results from its own surveyed faculty and used them in the University provost’s faculty development and diversity end of year report...
Joshua Patashnik ’07 and Rachel B. Nolan ’07, a member of The Crimson’s news board, were the Harvard Orators at yesterday’s event, and Tracy E. Nowski ’07 and Kiernan P. Schmitt ’06-’07 gave the Ivy Orations. Per tradition, the Harvard Oration is a serious address and the Ivy Oration is humorous...
...says Vucic. "We don't even know where the disease begins - whether it's in the brain, the spinal cord or the peripheral nerves. Our research, however, suggests it starts in the brain." The brain cells of the MND sufferer are primed to fire, they say. This "hyperexcitability," says Kiernan, "appears to initiate the process of nerve death underlying the development of paralysis." If the future of MND treatment involves implanting stem cells, he says, "then the right place to be putting them would appear to be the motor cortex...
...sense of hopelessness has contributed to medical science's scant progress on MND, the researchers argue. "No one," says Kiernan, "wants to go into an area that's completely black." It's also likely that the relatively small market for MND drugs has dulled the pharmaceutical industry's motivation to develop them. Kiernan and Vucic hope their findings - combined with evidence that the incidence of MND seems to be rising, while it is claiming younger victims, with a baffling skew toward male professional athletes in their 30s - will generate more research into the disease. And that one day, a neurologist...