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Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times, will deliver the School of Law’s 2007 Tyrrell Williams Lecture on “The New Supreme Court: Continuity and Change” at 4 p.m. March 7 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall.

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.

Europa, an intriguing moon of Jupiter, could be key in the mystery of the origins of life, said William B. McKinnon, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences.

Photo by David KilperRichard L. Axelbaum, Ph.D., associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, demonstrates the combustion inside a jet engine using a hypodermic needle and propane fuel as part of the chemistry demonstrations Feb. 19 in The Gargoyle, part of the campus events celebrating National Engineers Week.

Margaret E. “Peggy” Kremmel, a tax accountant in the tax department, died Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007, at her home in Columbia, Ill., of heart failure. She was 49.

The men’s and women’s basketball teams each earned a bid to the 2007 NCAA Tournament with victories against the University of Chicago Feb. 24 at the Field House. The tournament begins March 2, when the men’s team hosts the NCAA Regionals.

University Libraries is asking faculty, staff and students to complete an online survey to evaluate the Libraries’ collections, services and facilities.

The University has added a link to its Web page for easy access to the latest information on the Interstate 64/Highway 40 construction project.

This spring’s free Saturday Science lecture series is offered at 10 a.m. the first four Saturdays in March in Room 201 of Crow Hall.

The following are among the new faculty members at the University. Others will be introduced periodically in this space. Robert Walker, Ph.D., joins the Department of Political Science and the Program in Applied Statistics and Computation, both in Arts & Sciences, as assistant professor. He earned a doctorate in political science from the University of Rochester in 2005. His general research interests are political methodology, international relations and political economy. A peripheral research project examines the political economy of European football (American soccer) with a focus on industrial organization and the intertwined national and European regulation of sport. Ignacio Miguel Sanchez Prado, Ph.D., joins the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor, with a joint appointment in international and area studies. He earned a master’s and a doctorate in Hispanic languages and literatures from the University of Pittsburgh. He earned a bachelor’s in literature from Universidad de las Américas-Puebla. Prado is the author of 14 articles on Latin American literature and cultural studies, all in referred journals. He also has published two books, in addition to being an accomplished translator and creative writer. Areas of research include Mexican literary, film and cultural studies, canon theory, world literature theory, Latinamericanist theory and criticism and Latin American film.