CAMPUS ROUNDUP
KU MEDICAL CENTER
Researchers at the KU Medical Center are taking part in a nationwide trial funded by the National Institute on Aging to see if DHA and omega-3 fatty acid found in fish can have an impact on the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Jeffrey Burns, director of the Alzheimer and Memory Center at the medical center is conducting the study locally. Researchers are also evaluating whether taking DHA supplements can have a positive effect on physical and biological markers of Alzheimer's.
KU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE-WICHITA
Graduate medical education recently received full four-year accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. A letter to the department said, "The review committee commends the institution for its demonstrated substantial compliance with the ACGME's institutional requirements."
EDWARDS CAMPUS
Nancy Burich, founder and former director of the Regents Center Library at the Edwards Campus, will retire at the end of June. Burich began her career with KU in 1976 when the university decided that it needed a library for the Overland Park campus to support the courses offered there.A reception will be held from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. June 20 in 170 Regnier Hall to honor her.
Burich previously worked in libraries at Michigan State University and Columbia University.
When she arrived for her new job, the "library" consisted of a desk, a chair and a telephone in what was previously an elementary school library on the second floor of the building. She worked with architects to design a library in the old gymnasium of the grade school building and then again to design the current facility in a new, modern building, changing the Regents Center Library facility from a "delivery station" for books from the Lawrence campus to an advanced online library.
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