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Tackling
the problem of substance abuse among college
athletes involves total team effort. More
than 250 athletic trainers, coaches, student-athletes
and administrators from 46 NCAA-member
institutions will gather at the Doubletree
Hotel in Charlottesville Friday through
Sunday for the 15th annual Athletic Prevention
Programming and Leadership Education (APPLE)
conference, sponsored by U.Va.’s
Center for Alcohol and Substance Education. Full
story.
U.Va.
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 Nobel
laureate Dr. Ferid Murad, a groundbreaking
physiologist who conducted some of his
most important research during the 1970s
at U.Va., will present a public lecture, “Before
and After the Nobel Prize,” on Monday
at 4 p.m. in the Rotunda Dome Room. A reception
will follow in the Lower West Oval Room.
Murad will discuss his research into nitric
oxide, some of its many biological effects
and its application in drug development
for numerous diseases. The lecture, part
of a series of annual public lectures at
U.Va. by Nobel science laureates, is free
and open to the public. Full
story.
U.Va.
News Services/Photo courtesy University
of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
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