News and Announcements

Mark Taubman to be Invested as Medical School Dean
Mark Taubman will be formally invested as the dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry at a ceremony at 4 p.m. today in the Class of '62 Auditorium. The investiture will feature guest speaker Eugene Braunwald, the Distinguished Hersey Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and chairman of the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction Study Group at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Professor Emeritus of English Cyrus Hoy Dies at 84
Cyrus Hoy, the John B. Trevor Professor Emeritus of English and former chair of the Department of English, died April 27 after a long illness. He was 84. The University flag will be lowered to half-staff today in his honor.
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Purple Periwinkles Fight Inflammatory Diseases
Medical Center researchers find that vinpocetine, a natural product derived from the periwinkle plant, acts as a potent anti-inflammatory agent when tested in a mouse model of lung inflammation.
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Eastman Students Win DownBeat Music Awards
Two Eastman School jazz guitarists, senior Graham Keir and freshman Gabriel Condon, have received honors in DownBeat magazine's 33rd annual student music awards. Keir won an undergraduate Jazz Soloist award, and Condon was recognized with an undergraduate Outstanding Performance award.
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Bradford Berk to Speak at Genetics Day
The 22nd annual Genetics Day is Friday, May 7, in the Class of ’62 Auditorium in the Medical Center. Medical Center CEO Bradford Berk will discuss “Genetics of Vascular Remodeling” at 10:45 a.m. and Stuart Schreiber, the Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University, will give the Fred Sherman Lecture 4 p.m. A complete schedule is available online.