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A low-cost medical device targeted at improving world health won the top prize in the School of Engineering & Applied Science’s inaugural Discovery Competition. Sparo Labs took the largest prize of $25,000. The company’s plan stems from an award-winning project to develop a low-cost, pocket-sized spirometer, which measures lung function.

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?Susan Rotroff, PhD, a classical archaeologist, and Leigh Schmidt, PhD, historian of American religion, are the latest WUSTL scholars to be selected for prestigious fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Rotroff and Schmidt were among 175 Guggenheim Fellows chosen in 2013 from nearly 3,000 applicants, including artists, scholars and scientists, in the U.S. and Canada.?

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Chenyang Lu, PhD, professor of computer science and engineering, and colleagues have developed a unique wireless system to help bridges and other structures withstand storms or earthquakes. The simulator uses real-time measurements relayed by wireless sensors.

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Timothy Eberlein, MD, chair of the Department of Surgery at the School of Medicine, has been elected president of the Southern Surgical Association, one of the nation’s leading medical groups.

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Susan E. Lanzendorf, PhD, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of the
in vitro fertilization lab, died Tuesday, April 2, 2013, from complications of pancreatic cancer. She was 54.

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8 p.m. Thursday, May 2
“Spring Scene Studies.” Free and open to the public. Event details. 560 Music Center, Ballroom Theater. daniels@wustl.edu or (314) 935-5566.
11 a.m. Friday, May 3
“PM2.5 Pollution Over China: Understanding the Roles of Anthropogenic Emissions, Meteorology and Chemistry” by Yuxuan Wang, assoc. prof., Center for Earth System Science and Inst. of Global Change Studies, Tsinghua U. Free and open to the public. Event details. Brauer Hall, Room 12.
(314) 935-5548.
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An event to celebrate and reminisce about Jewish Hospital and the Jewish College of Nursing will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, in the lobby of the Kingshighway Building. Light refreshments will be served.
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