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To climb the steps and open the doors to the memorial hall under the massive Gothic tower of the Vassar College library is to feel you're entering a cathedral of learning.

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The American Medical Group Association announced its new board members to begin their tenure in July 2001. The Board of Directors represents the leadership of some of AMGA's most prominent member medical groups.

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Johns Hopkins today announced the introduction of the Palm OS(tm) version of its digital Guide to Antibiotics and Infectious Disease -- the ABX Guide -- designed to give physicians free and up-to-the-minute information on antibiotics and their proper use. The ABX Guide offers information on more than 190 drugs and more than 140 diseases treated by both specialists and primary care physicians.

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AHRQ announces the availability of MEPSnet/IC, a new, Web-based and interactive tool that provides quick access to national and state level statistics and trends about health insurance offered by private establishments and state and local governments, including cost of coverage.

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Two universities announced that IU's Kelley School of Business and Purdue's Continuing Engineering Education program will join four universities in offering a special one-two educational punch -- a master's of engineering paired with a master's of business administration, that will be available via distance education directly to GM professionals.

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Gordon Gill, M.D., has been named Interim Dean for Scientific Affairs for the UCSD School of Medicine, filling the position recently vacated by Nobel Laureate George Palade, M.D., who has retired as dean and will continue with the School as Professor Emeritus.

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The Institute of Human Virology part of the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute has joined the Nigeria AIDS Prevention Initiative of the Harvard School of Public Health to reach groups in Nigeria who are at higher risk for HIV infection and other sexually transmitted diseases. The initiative is funded by the Gates Foundation.

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LSU is developing a multidisciplinary, craft-based approach to graduate education that could serve as a model for graduate programs around the U.S. The apprentice-craftsman approach trains doctoral students through hands-on research, teaching and community service.

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A $35 million gift from the Paul Barret Jr. Trust will fund construction of a new library at Rhodes College. It is the largest gift in Rhodes' history and is believed to be the largest one for a capital project received by a liberal arts college in the South.

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Two Florida State University professors, classics Associate Professor James Sickinger and theatre Assistant Professor Laura Edmondson, have received summer stipends for 2001 from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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A University of Arkansas biology professor has won a Charles Bullard Fellowship for Forest Research, which will provide him with a year-long stipend to continue his ongoing research on avian ecology at Harvard University.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins has launched comprehensive new content and features at LWWoncology.com, its leading Internet community for oncology professionals.

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Robert I. Grossman, MD, has been named Chairman of the Department of Radiology at NYU School of Medicine and Director of Radiology at NYU Hospitals Center. Dr. Grossman was previously Associate Chairman of Radiology; Professor of Radiology, Neurosurgery, and Neurology; and Chief of Neuroradiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

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The planned visit of former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui to Cornell University May 2-4 has been postponed for health reasons. His visit to Cornell is now planned for May 29-31.

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The San Francisco Giants and the American Academy of Dermatology are asking fans to step up to the plate and help strike out skin cancer by practicing sun-safe behavior and conducting skin self-examinations. The Giants will demonstrate the importance of skin cancer prevention and detection when players, coaches, front office staff and family members are screened for skin cancer on Melanoma Monday, May 7.

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Professional golf star, Greg Norman, has joined with the American Academy of Dermatology and the Richard David Kann Melanoma Foundation in an effort to inform the public about the importance of sun protection and skin cancer prevention.

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The American Academy of Dermatology will partner with The Weather Channel to screen its employees for skin cancer at The Weather Channel's corporate headquarters in Atlanta as part of the AAD's annual Melanoma Monday, May 7.

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Steven Holl's distinctive design was "absolutely the clear winner" of Cornell University's competition for the design of a new building for the College of Architecture, Art and Planning.

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HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced the formal establishment of a new Patient Safety Task Force within the Department of Health and Human Services that will coordinate a joint effort among several department agencies to improve existing systems to collect data on patient safety.

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The Health Care Financing Administration has invited the Mind/Body Medical Institute's Cardiac Wellness Program to participate in multi-year Medicare Lifestyle Modification Program Demonstration. The Cardiac Wellness Program will be offered to up to 1,800 Medicare beneficiaries with heart disease.

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With seed money from Goldman Sachs, Smith College is launching a Women's Financial Education Program to help young women take hold of their own financial futures. The initiative is believed to be the first such program in the nation aimed specifically at undergraduate women.

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Among the recently announced 2001 Guggenheim fellows is Louisiana State University Professor of English J. Gerald Kennedy. Kennedy was awarded the fellowship for his latest project, a book titled Inventing America's Story: Literary Nationalism in the Age of Poe.

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Publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins today announced the launch of LWW's Organism Central, a new CD-ROM product that provides health professionals with a single source for full information on familiar and unfamiliar organisms.

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Two renowned neuroscientists whose discoveries have helped revolutionize the understanding of brain "wiring" and how it goes awry in birth defects and adult diseases, will receive this year's March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology.

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Award-winning journalist and reporter, Tom Brokaw, is the 2001 Cushing Orator for the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS). Mr. Brokaw will speak discuss "An Anchor's View of the World."

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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Famous words by Franklin Delano Roosevelt repeated dozens of times by U-M history Prof. Sidney Fine in his second semester American History class. After more than a half century of teaching, Fine held his last lecture on April 16.

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A professor of human nutrition at Washington State University Spokane and a nationally recognized expert on mineral nutrition, has received a $178,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study salt's role in calcium kidney stone formation. The study results will be used to make dietary recommendations about the amount of dietary salt for calcium kidney stone formers.

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The American Medical Group Association continues to sustain the exceptional growth rate in membership it experienced in 2000 as evidenced by its just released first quarter results.

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The American Society for Microbiology has selected Tinsley Davis, a third-year Ph.D. candidate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Lisa Rezende, a current postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, as the recipients of its 2001 Mass Media Fellowships

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John Phillips Dorst, M.D. director of pediatric radiology at Johns Hopkins for more than two decades, died of complications from a brain tumor on April 17 at Brightwood Genesis Eldercare in Lutherville, Md.

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography Professor Emeritus Charles S. "Chip" Cox has been awarded the Alexander Agassiz Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. Cox, will receive a medal and a $15,000 prize during the NAS annual meeting on April 30 in Washington, D.C.

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Lee Teng-hui, former president of Taiwan, will travel to Cornell on a personal visit in early May to see his granddaughter, a Cornell student, and meet with students and faculty at his alma mater. The university will announce the establishment of the Lee Teng-hui Institute in his honor.

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The lung cancer program at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center has been designated a Specialized Program of Research Excellence by the National Cancer Institute, making it one of six programs nationwide to receive national recognition and substantial research funding.

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The U.S. Army and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will create a national biotechnology "Center of Excellence" - focusing some of the nation's top minds and research facilities on several critical Army needs.

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2001 "Woman of the Year": Carrie S. Cox, Corporate Executive Vice President and President, Global Prescription Business, Pharmacia Corp. A registered pharmacist with nearly 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry.

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Janet Ginsburg, special correspondent for BusinessWeek, has been named the recipient of the 2001 American Society for Microbiology Public Communications Award.

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Awards for the year 2001 to be presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland

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Students in Penn State's Smeal College of Business can now experience the turbulent world of global trading in its new Trading Room, which is believed to be the most technologically advanced room of its kind in the country.

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The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) has added "AMGA Shop" and a new online Membership Directory to its Web site at www.amga.org, to make it easier to access valuable information and resources.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins announces the launch of an Internet site for healthcare practitioners in internal and family medicine, featuring the full text of the 30th Edition of the best-selling Washington Manual.

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This June, Glenn Matsuki will celebrate the 6th anniversary of his heart transplant. What makes him truly unique is that has subsequently found employment as management assistant for the Liver Transplant program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

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A second wave of partnerships between universities and local K-12 school districts will form as graduate and advanced undergraduate students enter the classroom to teach their younger peers.

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Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins has developed a website that is a combination documentary, learning center, and virtual library devoted to exploring paleoanthropology.

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The Jewish Book Council of North America recently awarded Arkansas historian Evan Bukey one of its most prestigious national prizes for his book "Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945."

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Joseph Duncan, formerly of Oracle Corp. and Borland International, has joined the University of Washington's Cell Systems Initiative as chief of operations and information technology.

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The National Science Foundation announced a $4.47 billion budget request for fiscal 2002 - $56 million (1.3 percent) over 2001.

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Winners of the Johns Hopkins Young Investigators' awards cite different reasons for becoming scientists, but have in common a knack for elegant research, a keen discipline to see it through and an unusual ability to communicate what they're doing.

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An advanced creative writing program has been established in the American heartland. The new University of Illinois program will offer, its planners say, a first-rate opportunity for the nation's most promising writers.

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Classroom activities designed by teachers, for teachers, to enhance middle schoolers' skills in science and math are now available on the Web. "Cycles of the Earth and Atmosphere" builds the excitement of scientific discovery into the curriculum, along with the basic concepts middle school students are expected to master.

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Cornell and a private foundation organized by the Emir of Qatar announced April 9, 2001 the establishment of the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar. It will offer a complete medical education leading to a Cornell University M.D. degree, with the same admission standards and curriculum as the New York campus.