Paleopathologist Arthur Aufderheide Retires
Arthur Aufderheide, paleopathologist at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus, will retire this month after 36 years of service to the University. Aufderheide has travelled the world studying mummies, and he maintains a collection of more than 5,000 mummy remain samples – the largest such collection in the world.
He told the Duluth News Tribune: “My contribution to the field in general was to make other people aware that… there is medical and anthropological information in mummies.”
Read a profile of Dr. Aufderheide in the Duluth News Tribune (free registration required):
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/107842/
Read a story and watch a photo slideshow:
http://www.mmf.umn.edu/bulletin/2008/fall/ac_spotlight.cfm
U OF M RECEIVES $40 MILLION FOR TYPE 1 DIABETES RESEARCH
The Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation has pledged $40 million for diabetes research to the University of Minnesota. The gift, to be paid over five years, will capitalize on the University's strength in diabetes research and aims to shorten the timeline for translating it into a cure for people with type 1 diabetes.
The gift is the second largest in the history of the University and the second largest by an individual or family foundation to diabetes research in the United States. The University will rename its Diabetes Institute for Immunology and Transplantation (DIIT) the Schulze Diabetes Institute.
"We have the capacity to cure this devastating disease and help people enjoy a happy and productive life no longer constrained by diabetes and constant fears and worries," says Bernhard Hering, M.D., scientific director of the Schulze Diabetes Institute.
MAINTAINING A HEALTHY WORK ENVIRONMENT IN STRESSFUL AND UNCERTAIN TIMES
The current economic crisis is creating a tidal wave of stress and uncertainty. Within organizations, budget cuts may mean reducing staff, reorganizing work, or eliminating programs, products, or services. In people’s personal lives, there are fewer dollars to pay for food, health care, and other expenses. For people approaching retirement, there is fear and anxiety as they look at their dwindling retirement accounts.
People react to stress and uncertainty in different ways. For most, high levels of stress and chronic stress can adversely impact personal health and well-being by eroding quality of life and productivity in organizations. Stress can also provoke us to act in uncustomary ways.
FORMER MEDICAL SCHOOL DEAN DIES
N. L. (Neal) Gault Jr., M.D., beloved former dean and alumnus of the Medical School, died of pancreatic cancer this week at his St. Paul home. He was 88.
Dean of the Medical School from 1972 to 1984, Gault was known for his commitment to students, especially for helping them deal with the financial pressures of medical school. This commitment led Gault and his wife Sarah, a University alumna and physician who passed away in 1994, to create several funds to help medical students finance their education. Additionally, he helped establish the world’s first endowed chair in sexual health at the University and served on the leadership advisory council for the Program in Human Sexuality.
A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m., Jan. 16, 2009 at the University of Minnesota’s Mayo Auditorium, 425 Delaware St. S.E., Minneapolis.
The $292 million Minnesota Biomedical Research Program will add nearly 400,000 square feet of critically important research space near TCF Bank Stadium and Mariucci Arena. The biomedical research district is already home to the Lions Research Building wrapped by the McGuire Translational Research Facility and the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research.
