Amy D. Waterman, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, has received a three-year, $899.663 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration for research titled “Increasing Living Donation in Transplant-Eligible Dialysis Patients.” …
Gerhild Williams, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures in Arts & Sciences and the David M. Thomas Professor in the Humanities, is serving a two-year term as president of the Sixteenth Century Studies Association and Conference. The association is one of the largest such organizations in the world with more than 2,200 members. It serves scholars and students who study the literature, culture, history, religions and performing and visual arts of the early modern period (1450-1700). Williams is working to plan the association’s annual conference, which is in Atlanta this month. …
Paul S.G. Stein, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, has received a four-year, $707,624 grant from the National Institutes of Health for research titled “Sensory and Motor Integration in the Spinal Cord.”…
John Heil, Ph.D., professor in the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program in Arts & Sciences, has received a $126,462 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a six-week seminar for 15 college and university professors on philosophical questions about the nature of the mind, titled “Mind and Metaphysics.” …
Chengjie Xiong, Ph.D., research assistant professor of the Division of Biostatistics, has received a three-year, $353,768 grant from the National Institute of Aging for research titled “Statistics in Alzheimer’s Publications.” This is a Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development mechanism that allows the recipients to work on intensely focused research that will enhance career opportunities. …
Junior Sara Morris was one of five students from the United States and Canada named to the board of directors of the Hillel, the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. Morris will serve on the board for two years and will act as student voice in board decisions. Morris is treasurer of Jewish Student Union. …
Jeffrey M. Gidday, Ph.D., associate professor of neurosurgery, ophthalmology and visual sciences and of cell biology and physiology, has received a four-year, $1,000,000 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a research project titled “Vascular Mechanisms of Cerebral Ischemic Tolerance.” …
Rebecca Copeland, Ph.D., associate professor of Japanese, attended the British Association of Japanese Studies meetings at Kent University, Canterbury, England on September 6, where she received the Toshiba International Foundation Prize. The Prize is awarded annually for the best article published in the journal, Japan Forum. Copeland’s article, “Woman Uncovered: Pornography and Power in the Detective Fiction of Kirino Natsuo,” appeared in the March 2004 issue of the journal. …
The Blanche and Irving Laurie Lecture in Jewish Women’s Studies at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion was presented September 18 in Cincinnati, Ohio, by Nancy E. Berg, Ph.D., associate professor of Modern Hebrew Language and Literature, of Jewish and Near Eastern Studies and of Comparative Literature. The title of Berg’s talk was “The Books of Daughteronomy: A Feminist Approach to Israeli Literature.” …
Diane L. Damiano, Ph.D., research associate professor of neurology, has received a transfer of $10,958 from the United Cerebral Palsy Research & Educational Foundation for the Ethel Hausman Award. …
Terence Myckatyn, M.D., instructor in surgery, has received a one-year, $3,300 grant from The American Association for Hand Surgery for research titled “Application of a Novel Auto-Fluorescing Mouse Model to Determine Where the Axons in the Terminal End of an End-to-Side Neurorrhaphy Come From.” …
Kevin J. Gibson, M.D., a resident in internal medicine, and Lawrence M. Lewis, M.D., associate professor of emergency medicine in medicine, have received a $2,500 grant from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine for research titled “Verification of an Abdominal Pain Evaluation Tool: A Pilot Study.” …
Kevin J. Black, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry, has received a one-year, $500 stipend from the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society for help to support students working with him. …
Michael W. Peelle, M.D., a resident in orthopaedic surgery, has received a one-year, $15,000 grant from the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation for research titled “Localization and Identification of the Gene(s) Involved in Autosomal Dominant Congenital Vertical Talus.” …
Cathy K. Naughton, M.D., assistant professor of surgery, has received a one-year, $10,000 grant from the Midwest Stone Institute for research titled “Optimization of Whole Tissue Testis Transplantation.” …
David A. Peters, Ph.D., the McDonnell Douglas Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and chair of the mechanical and aerospace engineering department, has received a $202,815 grant from the U.S. Army for research titled “Continuation of Development of Rotor Wake Model In State Space.” …
Michael R. Brent, Ph.D., professor of computer science and engineering, has received a two-year, $200,000 grant from Monsanto Co. for research titled “Experimental Annotation of the Maize Genome.” …
Roman Stanchak and Michael Dixon, graduate students working with Robert Pless, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering, in the Media and Machines laboratory, each received a Canesta 3-D imaging camera for their research aper as part of a national contest. Each camera is worth $7,500. …
Barry E. Spielman, Ph.D., professor of electrical and systems engineering, organized two special sessions for the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Microwave Symposium, held in June in Long Beach, Calif. One session was on distributed RF sensors/communications systems, and the other was on left-handed materials. The left-handed materials research that Spielman and his students perform creates new effects such as left-handed wave propagation (instead of the traditional right-handed wave propagation) negative permitivity and negative-permeability-like behavior; and negative refractive index effects. …
Stefan R. Falke, Ph.D., research assistant professor in the Environmental Engineering Science Program, and Rudolf B. Husar, Ph.D., professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, have received a five-year, $1.5 million grant from NASA for research titled “Application of ESE Data and Tools to Particulate Air Quality Management.” …
Guy M. Genin, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and School of Medicine colleagues Eric Leuthardt, M.D., and Dennis Rivet, M.D., have received $30,000 from Washington University’s Bear Cub fund for the construction of a head restraint device. …
Mark J. Jakiela, Ph.D., the Lee Hunter Professor of Mechanical Design, has received a $25,000 grant from the law school’s new Center for Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship for a study titled “Users as Product Developeers: A Model for Communal Innovation and Entrepreneurship.” Jakiela’s project will examine how to facilitate end-user disclosure of ideas for improvement of prooducts or production of after-market products. The new cener is being funded by a gift from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. …
Michael A. Swartwout, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has received a $110,000 grant from the Air force Office of Scientific Research to continue research on small satellites and a slot in the next “nanosat” competition in 2007. In January 2005, Washington University students received a second-place award in a very competitive field for the Nanosat-3 competition. …
Carl M. Bender, Ph.D., professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, delivered a talk, titled “Ghost Busting: Making Sense of Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians,” as a principal invited speaker at four international conferences this summer. The first conference was the 10th Claude Itzykson Meeting on “Quantum Field Theory Then and Now,” held in June at the Service de Physique Theorique de Saclay, near Paris, France.
He delivered his second talk at the Third International Workshop on Pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians in Quantum Physics at Koc University in June in Istanbul, Turkey. It was the fourth international conference in the last two years that was devoted entirely to a research area that Bender began six years ago and still contributes to today.
In July, Bender participated in the International Conference on the Algebraic Analysis of Differential Equations from Microlocal Analysis to Exponential Asymptotics at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Kyoto University in Japan.
And in August, he gave a five-hour presentation at the International Symposium of Complexified Dynamics, Tunnelling and Chaos at Ritsumeikan University in Kusatsu, Japan.
Frank C-P Yin, M.D., Ph.D., chair and the Stephen F. and Camilla T. Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering, is president-elect of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). He assumes the office this month. In 2008, St. Louis will host the annual meeting of the BMES, and Yin will be the meeting chairperson.