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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE-WICHITA:

Rick Kellerman, chair and professor of family and community medicine and board chairman of the American Academy of Family Physicians, is featured in a new video produced by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The video, "Communicating With Your Doctor," features Kellerman providing information consumers can use to communicate with their physicians more effectively.

EDWARDS CAMPUS:

The Department of Design recently created two graduate programs in interaction design and design management on the Edwards Campus. KU is the only school in the nation to offer both programs. The programs draw upon cutting edge technologies and real-world experiences of industry experts.

The first, interaction design focuses on the study of how people relate to and use electronic items such as an iPhone screen, an ATM or grocery store scanner. Students conceive and research designs that will develop into products, services and systems used by people and businesses. The master's program is targeted to engineers, architects, interior designers, advertising executives and other professionals. The design management program focuses on customer-centered innovation regarding brands, products, services and systems. Students learn strategic, tactical and operational management methods to improve team performance and accomplish imaginative business goals.

KU MEDICAL CENTER:

The Economic Development Association has provided the KU Medical Center with $3 million to renovate the Breidenthal Building. The newly renovated space will be used to support a life sciences incubator. "This will serve as a centerpiece for economically driven research," Paul Terranova, vice chancellor for research at the KU Medical Center, told the Kansas City Star. "Over the long haul we will get more companies to stay in Kansas City and the Kansas City region. That will have a very positive economic impact."

RESEARCH MATTERS:

Deforestation in Mexico could bring about the end of the 3,000-mile migration of the monarch butterfly, according to a KU researcher. "To lose something like this migration is to diminish all of us - to diminish the biodiversity on the planet. And it would be a shame to lose this particular phenomenon because it's so truly spectacular, one of the awe-inspiring phenomena that nature presents to us," said Chip Taylor, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. "We need to understand it; we need to protect it." For more, or to listen to the original broadcast, visit www.researchmatters.ku.edu.