John C. Aerni, a graduate student in history in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year Fulbright-Hays grant from the U.S. Department of Education for doctoral research in Lesotho. His work focuses on youth and nationalism in the 1950s and ’60s during the period around independence, relying on oral and documentary sources. Aerni, who is a visiting research fellow in the Institute of Southern African Studies at the National University of Lesotho during the 2008-09 academic year, will be in Lesotho until June. …
Anders E. Carlsson, Ph.D., professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, has received a four-year, $1,026,560 grant from the National Institutes of Health for research titled “Control of Actin Assembly and Cell Migration by Actin-Regulating Proteins.” …
Eric Choi, M.D., associate professor of surgery, has received a two-year, $275,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for research titled “A Novel Approach to Prevent Arteriovenous Access Failure in Hemodialysis Patients.” …
J. Perren Cobb, M.D., professor of surgery, has received a three-year, $200,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for research titled “Plasticity of the Systemic Inflammatory Response.” …
Steven Hause, Ph.D., senior scholar in the humanities in Arts & Sciences, has received the Innovative Entrepreneurship Education Course Award from the U.S. Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship for his course “Economic History and Entrepreneurialism in Modern Western Civilization.” Hause developed the course curriculum with a grant from the WUSTL Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies with funding provided by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. …
Daniel Moran, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and Eric Leut-hardt, M.D., assistant professor of neurological surgery, have received a five-year, $1,210,761 subaward from Health Research Inc. for research titled “General Purpose Brain-Computer Interface System.” …
Will R. Ross, M.D., associate professor of medicine, associate dean for diversity and director of the Office of Diversity at the School of Medicine, has been elected chair of the Missouri Foundation for Health board of directors for a one-year term. He has been a member of the board since 2004. …
Barry P. Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pathology and immunology, has received a five-year, $1,900,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research titled “ATM Function During V(D)J Recombination.” …
Mark W. Smith, J.D., assistant vice chancellor and director of the Career Center, has been appointed to serve on the Regional Attorney Disciplinary Committee by the Supreme Court of Missouri. Smith was formerly associate dean of student services at the School of Law. …
Frank J. Stadermann, Ph.D., senior research scientist in physics in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $368,540 grant from the National Aero-nautics and Space Admin-istration for research titled “Atom-Probe Tomographic Studies of Individual Meteoritic Nanodiamonds.” …
Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D., vice chancellor for research, was named a member of the National Advisory Allergy and Infectious Diseases Council by former U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Michael O. Leavitt. Stanley will serve a four-year term on the council, which advises HHS and the National Institutes of Health on matters related to allergic and immunologic diseases, infectious diseases and biodefense research. Stanley also directs the Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, which is headquartered at Washington University. …
Radhakrishna Sureshkumar, Ph.D., professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering, has received a $166,451 subaward from the University of Tennessee through a grant funded by the National Science Foundation for research titled “Novel 3D Nanocomposites for Optical and Solar Applications.” …
Steven Teitelbaum, M.D., the Messing Professor of Pathology and Immunology, has been appointed to the Editorial Board of The Journal of Experimental Medicine. …
Herbert W. Virgin IV, M.D., Ph.D., the Edward Mallinckrodt Professor and chair of pathology and immunology and professor of medicine and of molecular microbiology, has joined the editorial team of Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology. …
WUSTL’s traditional Indian dance team took third place Jan. 31 in the eighth annual intercollegiate Rass dance competition, Dandia Dhamaka, at the Uni-versity of Michigan. Ten teams attended the event, which drew more than 2,000 spectators. …
Ernst Zinner, Ph.D., research professor of physics and of earth and planetary sciences, both in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $1,921,500 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research titled “Laboratory Studies of the Isotopic Compositions of Presolar Dust Grains.”
In print
Robert McCarter, the Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture and chair of the Architecture Graduate Program, had an article on “The Villa Mairea of Alvar Aalto” included in the commemorative 50th issue of the magazine Hise (Houses), which was published in January. He also wrote the introductory essay, “Common Sense: Towards an Architecture Both Poetic and Practical,” in “Brian Healy: Common Places” (ORO Editions 2008) and a book review of “Aldo van Eyck: Writings,” which appeared in the December issue of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.