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Jacqueline Tatom, assistant professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, died Sunday, March 18. She is survived by her husband, Paul Naecker, and their 12-year-old daughter, Theresa Ann Naecker. A gathering will be held in Tatom’s honor at 12:30 p.m. March 19 in the stairway of Givens Hall. A […]

<img src="/news/PublishingImages/5531_t.gif" alt="Renaissance students This spring, 37 art and architecture students from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts are soaking in history by living and working in Florence and pursuing a curriculum that includes studios, art history seminars and Italian language classes.” height=”255″ width=”175″ />Courtesy Photo/Sketch by Alla AgafonovRenaissance students This spring, 37 art and architecture students from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts are soaking in history by living and working in Florence and pursuing a curriculum that includes studios, art history seminars and Italian language classes.

The women’s basketball team finished second in the NCAA Division III national championship, while the men finished third this weekend. – See latest results

WUSTL and eight other institutions will release a report on stagnant National Institutes of Health funding and the threat to progress in health care.

Parking and Transportation Services has announced Danforth Campus parking permit fees for the 2007-08 school year. The fees take effect July 1.

Political developments affecting American business and new challenges and directions in political risk analysis will be the focus of a public forum from 8 a.m.-noon March 23 in the May Auditorium of Simon Hall.

Linda Van Dillen, Ph.D., assistant professor of physical therapy, has received a four-year, $1,438,316 grant from the National Institutes of Health-National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research for research titled “Classification-directed Treatment of Low Back Pain.” … Michael R. DeBaun, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics and of neurology; Michael S. Diamond, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, of pathology and immunology and of microbiology; and Russell Van Gelder, M.D., Ph.D. associate professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences and of molecular biology and pharmacology, each received a five-year, $750,000 Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research from Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The awards are intended to support established, independent physician-scientists who are dedicated to translational research and mentoring physician-scientist trainees. … 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. … Chenyang Lu, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has received a three-year, $359,426 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “NeTS-NOSS: Unified and Configurable Power Management for Wireless Sensor Networks.” … Joy Weese Moll, reference and Web services librarian, recently presented her workshop “Social Software in Libraries” at four locations: the Lewis and Clark Library System Headquarters in Edwardsville, Ill.; Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville; the Southern Illinois Learning Resources Cooperative Retreat at Rend Lake, Ill.; and the Kirkwood (Mo.) Public Library.

David Murray, M.D., pediatric anesthesiologist and director of the Clinical Simulation Center, has been named the Loeb Professor at the School of Medicine.

Four feature films and four short films from six different African nations are part of the African Film Festival March 22-25.

<img src="/news/PublishingImages/5531_t.gif" alt="Renaissance students This spring, 37 art and architecture students from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts are soaking in history by living and working in Florence and pursuing a curriculum that includes studios, art history seminars and Italian language classes.” height=”255″ width=”175″ />Courtesy Photo/Sketch by Alla AgafonovRenaissance students This spring, 37 art and architecture students from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts are soaking in history by living and working in Florence and pursuing a curriculum that includes studios, art history seminars and Italian language classes.