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WUSTL has received an Award of Excellence from the Health Improvement Institute for the merger of its multiple Institutional Review Boards.

Fuel-efficient technologies and vehicles from General Motors Corp. will be discussed in a program from 3-5 p.m. Jan. 25 in Whitaker Hall. Following the program, vehicles will be available for test drives.

Stephen H. Legomsky, J.D., D.Phil., has been named the John S. Lehmann University Professor. The new professorship was created through a charitable trust established by the late John Lehmann, a distinguished alumnus, lawyer and University trustee for more than 20 years.

Costas Azariadis, Ph.D., joins the Department of Economics in Arts & Sciences as professor. Azariadis earned a Ph.D. in 1975 from Carnegie Mellon University and has been affiliated with Brown University and the universities of Pennsylvania and California, Los Angeles. He was tenured in 1977 and promoted to full professor in 1983, both at Penn. […]

Leonard Berg, founder and former director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, died Monday, Jan. 15, following a stroke. His early work formed the foundation for the systemized assessment of dementia and detection of early onset of Alzheimer’s disease now in common use.

In remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Society of Black Student Social Workers at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work will host a “Financial Freedom Semnar: Achieving Economic Independence Through Education,” from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Jan. 20 in Brown Hall.

Joseph T. Strong, a research engineer in the Genome Sequencing Center at the School of Medicine, died Saturday, Dec. 23, 2006.

Photo by David KilperMechanical and aerospace engineering seniors Topher McFarland (left) and Rahul Bhinge (kneeling) demonstrate their creation, a computer artist nicknamed “Action Jackson” designed to paint in the style of Jackson Pollock at the Dec. 8 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Design Fair in Whitaker Hall.

Ramesh Agarwal, Ph.D., the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has received a three-year, $219,232 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Projects in Complex Fluids and Their Applications.” Agarwal also received the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ 2006 Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, which honors outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering by someone 20 years following graduation. In addition, Agarwal has been named a fellow of the World Innovation Foundation. … David A. Peters, Ph.D., chair of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the McDonnell Douglas Professor of Engineering, and graduate students Antonio Hsieh (SEAS) and Almudena Torrero (Saint Louis University) received the Best Paper on Aerodynamics Award at the 62nd Annual Forum of the American Helicopter Society International, held last May in Phoenix. … Karen O’Malley, Ph.D., professor of neurobiology, received the Service Award from the Washington University Academic Women’s Network (AWN). Jack Ladenson, Ph.D., the Oree M. Carroll and Lillian B. Ladenson Professor of Clinical Chemistry in Pathology and Immunology and professor of clinical chemistry in medicine, received the AWN Mentor Award. Angela Reiersen, a post-doctoral research scholar in the Department of Psychiatry, and Jennifer Boland, who graduated from the School of Medicine in May, were each awarded the AWN Student Leadership Award. The awards recognize the individual’s support and leadership in service to or advancement of women in the community. … Eric T. Choi, M.D., assistant professor of surgery and of radiology, was named the 2006 Wylie Scholar in Academic Vascular Surgery by the Pacific Vascular Research Foundation. He receives a $150,000, three-year grant to continue his independent scientific investigations into arteriovenous access complications in patients undergoing hemodialysis due to kidney failure.

The No. 24 men’s basketball team improved to 10-1 overall with two victories last week.