Campus Watch

Jan. 31 4:53 p.m. — A student reported he had his keys laying on his gym bag while he was playing basketball between 3-3:30 p.m. on Jan 28. The keys were missing when the student returned. 10:06 p.m. — A student reported her wallet missing and stated she last saw it at 1:30 p.m. today while at the Danforth bakery in Mallinckrodt Student Center. She noticed it missing while in Lopata Hall after class at 3 p.m. The student reported no activity on her credit cards.

All smiles

Photo by Robert BostonWashington University physicians celebrate with Kaidence Oliver (center), who was the 1,000th liver transplant patient in Washington University’s liver transplant program.

Spring social work lecture series begins

Leading experts in the fields of mental health services, civic service and human behavior are part of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work’s spring lecture series. The first lecture, “Community Engagement in Mental Health Services Research: What Happens to Science and Scientists When Partners Come First?” by Kenneth B. Wells, M.D., professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine and professor of health services at the UCLA School of Public Health, is at noon Feb. 5 in Brown Hall Lounge.

Brown bag it with ‘Work, Families and Public Policy’

Faculty and graduate students from St. Louis-area universities with an interest in topics relating to labor, households, health care, law and social welfare are invited to take part in a series of Monday brown-bag luncheon seminars to be held biweekly through April 30. Now in its 11th year, the series is designed to promote interdisciplinary research in areas related to labor, households, health care, law and social welfare.

Notables

Dwight Towler, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $215,147 grant from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation for “Bone and Mineral Diseases Research Operations.” … M. Alan Permutt, M.D., professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $165,000 grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International for research titled “Notch Signaling in Beta Cell Development and Regeneration” and a one-year, $92,054 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for research titled “Metabolic Basis of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: a Genetic Analysis.” … Roberta Faccio, Ph.D., assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery, has received a two-year, $150,000 grant from the Arthritis Foundation for research titled “Role of PLC-Gamma2 in Inflammatory Arthritis.” … Audrey McAlinden, Ph.D., research assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery, has received a two-year, $150,000 grant from the Arthritis Foundation for research titled “Regulation of the COL2A1 Alternative Splicing Switch During Chondrogenesis.”
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