The J. Sanford Saltus Award

The Leo J . Geppert Award

Title: Adrenal Insufficiency and Growth Failure Secondary to Inhaled Corticosteroids: A Paradoxical Complication

Beth Levine receives the 2014 ASCI/Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award.

Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved process that degrades large cellular components and plays a critical role in maintaining cellular homeostasis. This year, the ASCI recognizes seminal work in the field by Beth Levine (Figure 1) of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center with its annual Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award. The prize honors Levine for her groundbreaking studies that fir...

The Early History of the Court Sanford

The history of the juvenile court precedes its formal beginnings in the Illinois Juvenile Court Act of 1899. This article traces key trends in the early history of the court, beginning with the founding of separate penal institutions for children in the 1820s and ending with the development of critical analyses of court practice in the 1930s. The Illinois statute distinguished between delinquen...

Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award Recipients

Color Phenomena in Polymer Frac ture * Sanford

Thin layers derived from t he matrix are produced in the frac ture plane of son1(' pol \'1llC'rs prior to ultimate failure. A certain amount of t he evidence would indicate t hat these iayC'rs consist of an oriented array of molecules. Fracture isolates t hese molecular segmen ts 'i n a t hin filtn with physical properties differing from tha t of t he matrix in "\\'hi c h they origillatC'cI. Th...