Author: Elizabeth Erman

Photo by Robert BostonThe University’s fourth-year medical students learned March 15 where they will do their residencies.

Colin G. Nichols, Ph.D., has become the first Carl F. Cori Professor at the School of Medicine.

School of Medicine researchers hope to one day combine a new drug with a small implanted light to stop seizures in patients with epilepsy.

Leonard Berg, M.D., will be remembered at a memorial service at 2 p.m. March 31 in the Connor Auditorium at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center.

Photo by Mary Butkus(From left) Michelle Levy, a junior majoring in biology in Arts & Sciences, with her date, fourth-year medical student Sameer Lodha, and fourth-year medical students Jennifer Chu and John Reuter enjoy the 10th annual Med Ball March 10 at the Millennium Hotel St. Louis.

Yixin Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has received the Early Career Principal Investigator Award from the U.S. Department of Energy. Chen will use his three-year, $298,421 award to develop numerical computation software that can solve large-scale computational problems, such as those arising from ultra-high-speed networks and genetic regulatory networks. … Joy Weese Moll, reference and Web services librarian, recently presented her workshop “Social Software in Libraries” at four locations: the Lewis & Clark Library System headquarters in Edwardsville, Ill.; Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; the Southern Illinois Learning Resources Cooperative Retreat at Rend Lake, Ill.; and the Kirkwood (Mo.) Public Library.

Photo by Ray MarklinSchool of Medicine students teach area high-schoolers about preventing HIV and AIDS at an annual Wellness Day.

Registration is now open for the spring session of Mini Medical School, which begins the week of March 19 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center.

A School of Medicine group used birth data to analyze autism prevalence among children in the St. Louis metropolitan area.

Carl Frieden, Ph.D, professor of biochemistry and of molecular biophysics, will receive the 2007 Christian B. Anfinsen Award at the 21st Symposium of the Protein Society July 21-25 in Boston. This award recognizes significant technical achievements in the field of protein science. … Junqian Xu, graduate research assistant, has received a two-year, $75,928 grant from the U.S. Army for research titled “Noninvasive Localization of Prostate Cancer via Diffusion Sensitive MRI.” … Elaine Majerus, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $60,000 grant from the Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation for research titled “Study of Characterization of ADAMTS13 and Its Interaction with Endothelial Cells.” … Christina Gurnett, M.D., Ph.D., instructor in neurology, has received a one-year, $50,000 grant from the American Epilepsy Society for research titled “Determination of Seizure Susceptibility Gene Common to Mendelian and Complex Epilepsy.” … Rakesh Nagarajan, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology and immunology, has received a one-year, $50,000 grant from Microsoft Research for research titled “Function Express Gold: A caBIG Grid-aware Microarray Analysis Application.” … C.J. Larkin, administrative director of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Program and lecturer in law, received a three-year, $244,000 grant from the State Department to establish exchanges between Washington University and Kathmandu law schools, and between Washington University and two civil society non-governmental organizations in Nepal. Along with the International Institute in St. Louis, Larkin received an ASC Foundation grant to train and mentor mediators within the immigrant-refugee communities and to develop an Ethnic Mediation Council in St. Louis.