Of note

Dengfeng Cao, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology and immunology, has received a one-year, $22,800 contract from the American College of Radiology Imaging Network for research titled “ACRIN 6682 Medical Director of Pathology.” …

Charles Eby, M.D., associate professor of pathology and immunology and of genomic medicine, has received a two-and-a-half-year, $464,611 subcontract from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to serve as the core laboratory for the “Randomized Clinical Trial of Genotype-Guided Dosing of Warfarin Therapy (COAG) Trial.” …

Makiba Foster, librarian for American history, American culture studies, and women, gender and sexuality studies, was one of 100 library staff nationwide to be included in the American Library Association’s (ALA) Emerging Leaders 2010 program. Foster attended the program orientation at the ALA’s winter meeting and will complete an individual project, which she will present at the national ALA conference in June. …

Michael Mueller, Ph.D., professor of physical therapy and director of the Applied Biomechanics Laboratory at the School of Medicine, was named to the board of trustees of the Foundation for Physical Therapy. …

Douglas A. Wiens, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $413,112 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Mantle Serpentinization and Water Cycling Through the Mariana Trench and Forearc.” Also receiving the grant was Daniel Lizarralde, Ph.D., of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Obituary

Allen E. Palmquist Sr., departmental administrator in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 1984-1990, died Feb. 4, 2010, at his Clayton home of cancer. He was 76.