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KU MEDICAL CENTER:

Jeffrey Burns of the School of Medicine published his findings related to the link between physical fitness and Alzheimer's disease this summer in the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. He found that patients with mild Alzheimer's with a higher physical fitness level had larger brains than those with mild Alzheimer's and a lower physical fitness level. "People with early Alzheimer's disease may be able to preserve their brain function for a longer period of time by exercising regularly and potentially reducing the amount of brain volume lost. Evidence shows decreasing brain volume is tied to poorer cognitive performance, so preserving more brain volume may translate into better cognitive performance," Burns said.

EDWARDS CAMPUS:

Jeff Severin, director of the Center for Sustainability, will present "Greening the Workplace: Sustainable Strategies for the Office Environment" at 8 a.m. Oct. 1 at Regnier Hall. Severin will discuss how businesses and individuals can adopt practices such as buying recycled products, reducing waste and more to green up their every day activities.

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE-WICHITA:

Barry Bloom, professor of neonatology, has been named interim chair of the pediatrics department. Bloom replaces Robert Wittler, chair and professor, who stepped down Sept. 8. "For more than six years, Dr. Wittler served as chair of pediatrics and among his many accomplishments was his leadership in successfully recruiting two subspecialists as well as four pediatricians to the medical school," Dean S. Edwards Dismuke said. "He will continue as a member of our faculty."

RESEARCH MATTERS:

RESEARCH MATTERS: Daphne Fautin, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, is a commissioner for the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. "It's the Supreme Court of zoological nomenclature. We make decisions not on whether a particular species is really valid, whether it exists or not - that's a subject of scientific debate. But whether it has followed the rules, the laws the international code of scientific nomenclature so that it can be considered scientifically available and it actually applies to an entity that we can identify," Fautin said. For more, visit www.researchmatters.ku.edu.