Robert Mecham, PhD, a pioneering cell biologist, and Nancy Morrow-Howell, PhD, a leading national scholar in gerontology, will receive WUSTL’s 2012 faculty achievement awards, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced. Mecham is receiving the Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award, and Morrow-Howell is receiving the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award. They will receive their awards and give presentations of their scholarly work during a ceremony in December.

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The PLAN worked, and now organizers of the WUSTL Professional Leadership Academy & Network program are looking for a second group of participants. PLAN is a yearlong professional development program intended to cultivate future leaders who can contribute to university-wide initiatives and projects.

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WUSTL has awarded five Bear Cub fund grants totaling $190,000 to support innovative research that has shown commercial potential. Jerry Morrissey, PhD (right), received one of the grants to develop rapid tests for the early detection of kidney cancer.

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The Department of Mathematics in Arts & Sciences has announced that a WUSTL team, consisting of senior Alex Anderson and juniors Tom Morrell and Ari Tenzer, placed 28th out of 460 teams in the demanding William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition. Two WUSTL teams also took first and third place in the 17th annual Missouri Collegiate Mathematics Competition.

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The School of Law celebrated the outstanding achievements of seven individuals at the annual Distinguished Alumni Awards Dinner April 20. Four alumni received Distinguished Law Alumni Awards; two received Distinguished Young Law Alumni Awards; and one received the Dean’s Medal.

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