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Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Burnaby, British Columbia
High-profile suicides of professional football players have mounted in the past several years Terry Long (2005), Andre Waters (2006), Dave Duerson (2011) and Ray Easterling (2012) all killed themselves following retirement and bouts with diagnoses likely related to the thousands of hits they fearlessly underwent as players. The conditions vary but have overlapping qualities: post-concussion syndrome, depression, other mood disorders, personality changes, memory problems and dementia. Now with the loss of Pro Bowler Junior Seau, dead at 43 earlier this month by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his chest, a suicide has occurred in a Hall of Fame-bound player who reportedly never exhibited emotional pain. His body will be examined for signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a condition proposed to explain the football suicides and underlying mental illness.
The issue of professional football’s responsibility for these conditions and player suicides is explored in Headstrong , a play running this month at the Ensemble Studio Theater in Manhattan. The theater has a long-standing sponsorship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to produce shows that deal with science. (Last year with this funding, EST mounted Photograph 51 , which explored the role of Rosalind Franklin in the discovery of the structure of DNA .)
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Natural Sciences Library summer hours are:
Monday - Friday: 8:30am - 4:30pm
Have a safe and happy summer everyone!
Come by and check out our new paleontology display in Natural Sciences Library!
The display is divided into two parts:
1. The Barrnade monographs - this is a collection of rare 19th century books purchased jointly by the Library and the Department of Geological Sciences in 2009. The volumes provide descriptions and beautiful illustrations of invertebrate fossils. This is the first time a selection of these valuable volumes has been displayed since their acquisition!
2. A celebration of the new textbook by Luis Buatois and Gabriela Mangano of the Department of Geological Sciences: Ichnology : organism-substrate interactions in space and time.
Check out our new guide that walks you through all the steps for using Endnote X5 - a great citation management program that lets you manage all your references for assignments and papers, and creates instant bibliographies in the citation style (APA, Vancouver, MLA, etc) of your choice. See here for the Endnote handout.