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After this issue, the Record will phase into its monthly summer publication schedule.

Photo by Robert BostonAnn Vitale adjusts Emily Gravenhorst’s prosthetic ear in the School of Medicine’s maxillofacial prosthetics laboratory.The medical school’s maxillofacial prosthetics laboratory helps patients fit back into society after disfigurement due to accident or disease.

More than a dozen distinguished individuals will speak at Commencement-related events for graduates and their friends and families.

The No. 13 softball team is headed to the College World Series for the first time in school history after defeating No. 17 Wartburg College, 2-0, at the 2007 NCAA Regional May 13 in Decorah, Iowa.

Kwee L. Thio, M.D., assistant professor of neurology, has received a two-year, $365,805 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for research titled “Leptin as a Novel Neurohormonal Anticonvulsant.”… John Shareshian, Ph.D., associate professor of mathematics, has received a three-year, $144,464 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Enumerative, Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics.”… Sandor Kovacs, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, has received a two-year, $330,000 grant from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation for Cardiovascular Biophysics Research. … David A. Balota, Ph.D., professor of psychology, has received a three-year, $66,651 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Construction and Utility of a Large Scale Semantic Priming Database.”

Two recently initiated School of Medicine programs will grant degrees and certificates this year to their first classes.

The decision for implementing the violent weather plan for Commencement ceremonies will be made by 7 a.m. May 18. Major local radio and TV stations will be given the information, and it will appear on wustl.edu and be announced through campus e-mail.

From medicine to engineering, law to biology, the Record features 12 of the University’s most interesting graduates in our Gallery of Graduates. Their profiles explore what brought them to WUSTL, their accomplishments during their time as students and where they’re headed now.

At 28, Shahrouz Yousefi is older than most of his peers graduating May 18. But had he stayed in his native Tehran, Iran, he would not have gone to college at all. The Islamic government imposes restrictions on members of Yousefi’s Bahai Faith. The religion arose in Iran in mid-19th century and, next to Islam, […]

The Hoffman Triangle in New Orleans lies below sea level, sandwiched between the levees of Lake Pontchartrain on the north and the high banks of the Mississippi River to the south. During Hurricane Katrina, floodwaters rose about 9 feet, destroying two-thirds of the neighborhood’s housing. Yet even before Katrina, “the Hoffman Triangle was facing lots […]