A lifetime of paying attention to the background may have trained some senior citizens to tamp down part of their brain’s ability to see the foreground, suggest researchers in Illinois and Singapore.

Nicky Pentilla story on transforming arts teaching for the June 2007 issue of Arts Education in the News.

Sidebar to accompany Nicky Pentilla story, "Lesson for Educators: Practice What You Teach" in the June 2007 issue of Arts Education in the News.

Thomas Waldmann, a clinical immunologist at the National Cancer Institute, is the 2007 recipient of the American Association of Immunologists-Dana Foundation Award in Human Immunology Research. The award recognizes excellence in 'translational' research.