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The School of Medicine received $10 million to study new therapies for patients recently diagnosed with HIV and its related complications.

Paul Michael Lützeler, Ph.D., Rosa May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, will receive the Austrian Great Medal of Merit in a ceremony at the University Feb. 8. Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, will present the award.

Bacterium that could be used in bioterrorism is significantly slowed when it can’t make use of a key protein, School of Medicine researchers found.

Washington University in St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame member Vaughan “Bing” Devine died Saturday at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. He was 90. A member of the Bears’ baseball and basketball teams, Devine graduated from Washington University in 1938 with a degree in liberal arts. He was part of the inaugural class in the WU Sports Hall of Fame in 1992.

Washington University’s Sports Hall of Fame Class now boasts a 10th member in the Class of 2006—Director of Athletics, John Schael. Surrounded by many friends and family, including Schael’s wife, Linda, and daughter, Erin, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton made the surprise announcement near the end of the 12th Hall of Fame ceremony held on the Danforth Campus on Friday morning.

Photo by Robert BostonDee Hodge works tirelessly to streamline the Emergency Department

Peter H. Raven, Ph.D., the George Engelmann Professor of Botany in Arts & Sciences and president of the Missouri Botanical Garden, will be profiled at 7 p.m. Jan. 29 on Channel 9’s weekly magazine show “Living St. Louis.”

Washington University’s Division of Biology and Biological Sciences (DBBS) has 10 of its 12 programs ranked in the top 10 among 166 large research universities, according to Academic Analytics’ Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index (FSP Index), a new quantitative method for ranking doctoral programs at research universities.

School of Medicine students are reaching out to area middle schoolers to teach sun protection.

Jan. 25 3:23 p.m. — Maintenance workers reported subjects playing cricket in the Rebstock Hall dock area had broken a window on the east side of the building. The subjects were contacted and identified. Maintenance cleaned up the glass and boarded the window. Damage to be paid for by involved parties.