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At

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Council

the

FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES of Ronie-Richele Garcia-Johnson, assistant professor of environmental policy, enter the

Monday.

A

reception

Chapel

Friends remember beloved ALEX GARINGER

Garcia-Johnson telling

The Chronicle

Assistant

Professor

of Environmen-

The

Hutson,

he

walked in to teach her first seminar at

hundred

people

the Nicholas School of the Environment

Chapel Monday

and Earth Sciences three years ago and

Johnson,

stared at

at age 34.

the fledgling first-year

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for her memorial service Most

professor

teel

graduate students.

woman,

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people think

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student

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because

know,

the

houses

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fittingly with

James Watson

and

with

coincided

anniversary of

the

that

genome

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human

the

Policy,

diseases such

on

as

the genetic

origins of

Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s

and autism, among others. While the official

opening

celebration took 160

terday, the center’s

place

yes-

researchers,

pro-

and other

fessors, physicians

the

probationary

IGSP,

come

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members

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touching and often

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of genomic informationby health

companies.

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as

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mutations.

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whether genomes

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moved in last November. The celebration began

interaction

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grand opening of the

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the resolution

notably,

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third-year

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Genetics

who to

of

group

her at the University of Michigan, Hutson

The Chronicle

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a

nature from his

IGSP celebrates By

told

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nice;

membered.

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ter’s students who sat in their first class

‘“You

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comment took the wind out of

tal Policy Ronie-Richele Garcia-Johnson

as

the class.

here to tell you that I’m not.’”

changes

one-year-old housing policy.

housing system, By

life

resolution

a

calling for several significant to the

held afterward at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences.

was

Campus

residential

governing body approved JANE HETHERINGTON/THE CHRONICLE

of

meeting

Monday,

provide

See CHG

appointment

of

a

security service for Durham

buses. See page 3

on

grand

page 9

President

they plan

George

director of the

W. Bush’s

campaign strategists

said

the to kick off the re-election campaign around

second anniversary of the

Institute for Genome Sciences and

Policy,

speaks

at the

opening of the Center for Human Genetics Monday.

Sept.

11 attacks. See page 5

The World Health rate for

people

Organization

announced that the death

suffering from SARS

percent since its outbreak

in

has doubled to 5.6

mid-March. See page 6


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