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CAMPUS ROUNDUP

KU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE - WICHITA

Russell Scheffer is the new chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. He was formerly associate professor of psychiatry and pediatrics; chair of child psychiatry; division director of child and adolescent psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine; and medical director of Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.

Recognized as an international presenter, his research interests include psychopharmacology, bipolar disorder, psychotic disorders, ADHD, depression, pharmacogenomics and neuroimaging.

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Principal investigator Joan Hunt has been awarded more than $4.8 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health to lead a collaborative effort to explore improved communication between mothers and their fetuses in utero. Ongoing research in this field is designed to reduce the number of miscarriages and other fertility problems, which affect nearly one in 10 couples.

The research at KU Medical Center is housed in the new Kansas Life Sciences Innovation Center, designed to foster collaborative work by university scientists engaged in life sciences research.

EDWARDS CAMPUS

Audio-Reader will host a donation drive for the For Your Ears Only sale from 3 to 7 p.m. July 19 at the Edwards Campus in the parking lot of Jayhawk Central. Donations are accepted at Audio-Reader year round. The following items will be accepted: CDs and CD players, records/LPs, stereos and stereo speakers, turntables, receivers and amps, iPods/MP3 players, books on CD/tape, musical instruments, car stereos/speakers, kids' electronics, DVD/VHS videos and home theater equipment. The sale, which will be held Sept. 21 and 22, is a major fundraiser for Audio-Reader.

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Tim Jankovich was recently named head basketball coach at Illinois State University after four years at KU. He joins a long list of former KU assistants are now head coaches, including Bill Self, who was an assistant at KU in 1986. Coaches, their current positions and their years at KU: John Calipari, head coach, Memphis, 1984-85; Mark Turgeon, head coach, Texas A&M, 1989-92; Kevin Stallings, head coach, Vanderbilt, 1989-93; Matt Doherty, head coach, Southern Methodist, 1993-99; Neil Dougherty, head coach, Texas Christian, 1996-2002; Norm Roberts, head coach, St. Johns, 2003-04.