At Lincoln's First Inauguration

Shapp Pledges Financial Reforms at Inauguration

A West Philadelphia community action group has requested that a site at 42nd and Market Streets "be purchased by the University and sold to the community at a minimum fee" for use as an "architectural workshop." John Petitj president of the West Powelton Concerned Community Council (WPdCC), last week wrote a letter to President Meyerson asking for the workshop, which would be used in training l...

At the inauguration of the Japan Esophageal Society.

Last June, I undertook the responsibility of dissolving the Japanese Society for Esophageal Diseases (JSED), which was founded by Prof. Kohmei Nakayama of Chiba University about 40 years ago and was served by four presidents, Hiroshi Sato, Teruo Kakegawa and myself. In place of this we developed a new organization, the Japan Esophageal Society (JES), composed of individual academic members, rat...

Inauguration of the Cameroonian Society of Human Genetics

The conjunction of "hard genetics" research centers, with well established biomedical and bioethics research groups, and the exceptional possibility to hold the 6th annual meeting of the African Society of Human Genetics (AfSHG, 13th-15th March 2009) was an excellent opportunity to get together in synergy the entire Cameroonian "DNA/RNA scientists" . This laid to the foundation of the Camerooni...

The Inauguration of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array

The Inauguration of a New Term of Pediatric Endocrinology

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. " We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. " The joy of the recent inauguration of Barack Obama as President of The United States has given a bounce to medicine and scientific communiti...