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Cynthia White has been selected to receive The National Council of University Research Administrators 2006 Distinguished Service Award. The award is way to recognize members of NCURA who have made sustained and distinctive contributions to the organization.

Coach Larry Kindbom’s Playbook of Champions inspires student-athletes for life.

Major Indian film star and social activist Shabana Azmi, will give a talk at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, November 29, in Graham Chapel on the Washington University Danforth Campus. The lecture, “Bollywood and Beyond,” will explore South Asia’s socio-cultural climate. It is free and open to the public.

On a mammogram, LCIS and ALH typically look like small deposits of calcium.In women whose initial breast biopsies revealed certain rare, yet benign breast conditions, more extensive follow-up surgical biopsies found that up to 25% of them actually had cancer in addition to these benign lesions. Most of the cancers were invasive, meaning the tumors had penetrated normal breast tissue and would require treatment. In the study, conducted at the School of Medicine, the women’s initial biopsies had revealed atypical lobular hyperplasia (ALH) or lobular carcinoma-in-situ (LCIS), conditions that increase the risk of breast cancer, but which are themselves considered benign.

The Bruno David Gallery, 3721 Washington Blvd., will present Bill Kohn: Journey, an exhibition of work by the late professor emeritus of painting, Nov. 17-Dec. 16. Kohn, who taught at Washington University for almost four decades, was known for large, colorful landscapes based on his travels around the world, to sites such as the Grand Canyon, Machu Picchu in Peru, the Duomo in Florence and Jaiselmer in India.

In celebration of America Recycles Day, Green Action, a WUSTL student group that seeks to raise environmental awareness on campus and in the community, will be holding its second annual electronics recycling drive Nov. 15 in cooperation with Web Innovations and Technology Services (WITS), a local not-for-profit electronics recycler.

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Gerald L. Early, Ph.D., the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters and director of the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, received the Phi Beta Kappa Award for Distinguished Service to the Humanities on Oct. 28. Early, who is professor of English, of African & African American Studies and of American culture studies, all in Arts & Sciences, received the award during the 41st Triennial Council of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, which met Oct. 25-29 in Atlanta.

Ken Yamaguchi, M.D., professor of orthopaedic surgery, was elected to the board of directors of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. He will serve the academy as member-at-large. … Robert Pless, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has received a $70,845 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “CAREER: Passive Vision — What Can Be Learned by a Stationary Observer.” Contingent upon availability of funds, the grant continues the next year up to 2010 at different funding levels. … Randy Korotev, Ph.D., research associate of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $222,000 grant from NASA for research titled “Origin of Impact Glass in the Lunar Regolith.” … Ramesh Agarwal, Ph.D., William Palm Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has received a three-year, $26,965 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research for “Computation of Hypersonic Shock Wave flows of Multi-component Reactive Gas Mixtures Using the Generalized Boltzmann Equation.”