<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-21/westmont-news/students-unveil-ground-breaking-research-projects.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>09/08/2005</pubDate><title>Students Unveil Ground-Breaking Research Projects</title><excerpt>A Westmont professor and a student researcher may be closing in on a cure for rheumatoid arthritis. Dr. Eileen McMahon has discovered a strain of mice that spontaneously develops arthritis after about 50 days of age and may represent a new model of rheumatoid arthritis. Student Joel Wilcox will present some of the findings as part of A Celebration of Student Research at Westmont, this Thursday, Sept. 8, from 4-6 p.m. at the Founders Dining Room.</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
            
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