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KU MEDICAL CENTER:

The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics will honor a KU Medical Center professor with the 2008 Bernard B. Brodie Award in Drug Metabolism, recognizing important research achievements in that field. Curtis Klaassen, University Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, will receive the biennial award for his pioneering work in drug uptake, drug metabolism and drug excretion by the liver. Klaassen's work focuses on the disposition of toxic heavy metals as well as drugs. The award recognizes not just Klaassen's contributions to drug development and its accompanying fields but also to environmental concerns. Klaassen joined the faculty in 1968.

EDWARDS CAMPUS:

The Aging Brain: Use It or Lose It?, presented by KU Life Span Institute Community Conversations, will take place from 10 a.m. to noon Feb. 23 in 164 Regnier Hall. The presentation will explore what people can do to preserve mental abilities as they age. Clinical scientists from KU's Gerontology Center, the medical center's Landon Center on Aging and the KU Alzheimer and Memory Program will lead the discussion. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 864-0756.

KU MEDICAL CENTER-WICHITA:

Randall Goering, clinical assistant professor of family and community medicine, received the 2008 Doug Parks, MD, Family Medicine Volunteer Preceptor Teaching Award. The award honors a volunteer faculty member who makes an outstanding contribution to the education of future physicians. Goering is a graduate of the School of Medicine-Wichita. In 1989, he received the Victor North, MD, Outstanding Family Physician Teacher Award.

KU HISTORY

KU is in the heart of the legislative session, lobbying for lawmakers' support of university needs. The process is a time-honored tradition. In 1909, Chancellor Frank Strong organized a 100th birthday banquet for Abraham Lincoln that brought legislators to campus as the culmination of a major campaign for increased state funding. For more, see www.kuhistory.com.