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Rebecca Veto, a junior in civil engineering, is one of four area students to receive a $1,000 scholarship this year from the Concrete Council of St. Louis. Veto will receive her scholarship at the council’s annual awards dinner on Nov. 9 at the Missouri Athletic Club. … Robert B. Pless, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science and engineering, will receive the Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award. Pless will be recognized at an awards ceremony to be held on Sunday, Nov. 19 at the Ritz-Carlton in Clayton, Mo. The award is given by the Emerson Electric company. … Daniel Giammar, Ph.D., assistant professor of civil engineering, has been awarded $149,999 from the American Water Works Association for his research titled “The Influence of Water Chemistry on the Dissolution and Transformation Rates of Lead Corrosion Products.” … Brian Allan and Brian Langerhans, graduate students in biology in Arts & Sciences, were honored at a Washington, D.C., congressional reception for being named Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science to Achieve Results (STAR) fellows, Sept. 25. EPA’s STAR graduate fellowship program is the only federal program designed exclusively for students pursuing advanced degrees in environmental sciences. Since 1995, EPA has funded over 1,200 STAR fellows. The STAR program is very competitive with only seven percent of applicants being awarded fellowships.

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Election to the academy is among the highest honors U.S. medical scientists can receive.

Photo by Mary ButkusMcDonnell Academy scholars from 12 of Asia’s leading universities were given an inside look at American politics at a recent forum.

The Missouri court will hold its session in Anheuser-Busch Hall as part of an educational program.

Pebbles, a giant tortoise at the Saint Louis Zoo, gets checked out by John P. Kirby, M.D. (far right), assistant professor of surgery and director of the School of Medicine’s Wound Healing Program. Kirby treated a wound on Pebbles’ shell, with assistance from Linda Stamm (far left) and Laurel Wiersema-Bryant, nurse practitioners at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, and Zoo veterinarian Michael Adkesson.

The Washington University Library’s Henry Hampton Collection will be featured in a special “Living St. Louis” at 7 p.m. Oct. 16 on KETC/Channel 9. The collection features the work of WUSTL graduate Henry Hampton, creator and producer of “Eyes on the Prize.”

The Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital has teamed up with the St. Louis Rams and Dave Sinclair Auto Group to offer a free prostate cancer screening event Oct. 17 in St. Charles County.

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Copyright The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. Used with permission.Increased cell proliferation in the saline solution group (B) compared to the nicotine group (A)Orthopaedic surgery researchers at the School of Medicine have identified yet another reason not to smoke. Studying rotator cuff injury in rats, the research team found exposure to nicotine delays tendon-to-bone healing, suggesting this could cause failure of rotator cuff repair following surgery in human patients. This study, the first to evaluate the effects of nicotine on rotator cuff repair, found that inflammation persisted longer in the shoulder joints of rats exposed to nicotine. The researchers also noted less cellular proliferation and decreased collagen production, indications of poor healing.