Author: Jessica Daues

The softball team extended its winning streak to 10 games with four victories at the Illinois Wesleyan Invitational in Bloomington, Ill.

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton will deliver remarks, as will Karin Johnes, former director of Greek life and a Virginia Tech alumna.

Sydney A. Jacobs, assistant dean at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work in 1967, died Tuesday, April 10, 2007, at the Gatesworth in University City. He was 91.

Wayne Yokoyama, M.D., the Sam J. Levin and Audrey Loew Levin Chair for Research of Arthritis, professor of Medicine and chief of the Division of Rheumatology, has received a one-year, $30,000 grant from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation for a Rheumatology Research Fund. … Ramaswamy Govindan, M.D., associate professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $25,496 subcontract from the University of Wisconsin-Madison for “Cancer Communications Systems-Expanded Use/Understanding.” … Diane Damiano, Ph.D., research associate professor of neurology, has received a one-year, $25,000 grant from the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine for research titled “Evaluating Outcomes Associated with Multidisciplinary Care for Children with Cerebral Palsy Using Clinical Practice Improvement (CPI) Methodology.”

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The Community Service Office has announced three student winners of the Social Change Grants. Presented annually to students seeking to better their community, the three grants have a total value of $18,000.

Bottles without original labels pose risk.With spring comes cleaning — the house, the yard, the basement and the car. And with cleaning comes potential hazards. People use them every day, but if common cleaners and pesticides are stored or applied incorrectly, they can have fatal consequences, say experts in environmental safety and emergency medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. More…

After opening the week April 2 with a 10-9 loss against Edgewood College, the baseball team bounced back for a 5-0 win at Westminster College April 5, giving coach Ric Lessmann his 1,300th career win.

Michael J. Howard, Ph.D., associate professor of neurology, has received a one-year, $21,200 grant from the Mike Utley Foundation for research titled “Functional CNS Remyelination by Transplanted ES Cell-derived Oligodendrocytes.” … Leesa M. Galatz, M.D., assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery, has received a one-year, $20,000 grant from the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons for research titled “The Role of Stress Environment on Formation of Tendon-Bone Insertion.” … Tatiana Efimova, Ph.D., research assistant professor of dermatology, has received a one-year, $15,000 grant from the American Skin Association for research titled “Role of p388 MAPK in Skin Carcinogenesis.”

At recent Board of Trustees meetings, the following faculty members were promoted with tenure, appointed with tenure or granted tenure effective July 1, 2007, unless otherwise noted. Promotion with tenure Mark Alford, to associate professor of physics Paul F. Austin, to associate professor of surgery, effective Jan. 1, 2007 Nathan A. Baker, to associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, effective July 1, 2006, with tenure effective Dec. 1, 2006 Thomas J. Baranski, to associate professor of medicine Joe E. Barcroft, to associate professor of Spanish and secondary learning acquisition Perry E. Bickel, to associate professor of medicine Christopher A. Bracey, to professor of law Lingchei Letty Chen, to associate professor of Chinese language and literature Zhoufeng Chen, to associate professor of anesthesiology, effective Feb. 1, 2006, with tenure effective Dec. 1, 2006. Michael R. Chicoine, to associate professor of neurological surgery, tenure effective Oct. 6, 2006 Matthew B. Dobbs, to associate professor of orthopaedic surgery, effective Jan. 1, 2007, with tenure effective March 2, 2007 Matthew Erlin, to associate professor of Germanic languages and literatures Timothy A. Graubert, to associate professor of medicine Robert O. Heuckeroth, to associate professor of pediatrics, effective Sept. 1, 2006 with tenure effective Oct. 6, 2006 Catherine C. Keane, to associate professor of classics F. Scott Kieff, to professor of law Henric Krawczynski, to associate professor of physics Katharine Kuharic, to associate professor of art William R. McKelvy, to associate professor of English Andrew Rehfeld, to associate professor of political science Rick W. Wright, to associate professor of orthopaedic surgery, effective Jan. 1, 2007, with tenure effective March 2, 2007 Appointment with tenure Jeffrey F. Peipert, as professor of obstetrics and gynecology and as vice chairman of clinical research in obstetrics and gynecology, effective Jan. 1, 2006, with tenure effective Oct. 6, 2006 Granting of tenure Allan Doctor, as associate professor of pediatrics, effective Oct. 6, 2006 Hong Liu, as associate professor of finance