Notables

Third-year Medical Scientist Training Program student Katherine Lee recently was elected national president and second-year medical student Aaron Lee was elected senior regional director of the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association (APAMSA). The elections took place at APAMSA’s national meeting, held this year in Chicago. …

Two groups from the University’s mock trial team finished first and fourth respectively in the Mock Trial Invitational Tournament recently held at Saint Louis University. A total of 16 teams from eight Midwest schools competed. The team is coached by Jessica Bernard, student in the School of Law. …

Nancy Tye Murray, Ph.D., research professor in the Department of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery, has received a five-year, $1,558,250 grant from the National Institutes of Health National Institute on Aging to study how aging affects a person’s ability to comprehend connected discourse, a continuation of the research began in 2000. …

Robert H. Mach, Ph.D., professor of radiology, has received a four-year, $1,203,433 grant from the National Cancer Institute for research titled “Radiolabeled Probes for Imaging Caspase-3 Activation.”