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Photo by Joe Angeles / WUSTL PhotoBruce Backus (left), Washington University assistant vice chancellor of environmental health and safety, and United States Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson.Recognizing the leadership that Washington University in St. Louis has shown in management of hazardous waste and its many environmental initiatives, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), during a visit to Washington University, announced plans to establish a new, national compliance assistance center for colleges and universities.

The University’s Board of Trustees discussed societal challenges that the University should address in the future, University constituencies and how well they are being served and undergraduate enrollment issues.

To reach his goal, Thomas Tung has been researching transplantation of hindlimbs to mice from unrelated donors without giving the mice immunosuppressive drugs.

The women’s cross country team took first place out of 29 teams, scoring 79 points at the Border Wars Oct. 7 in Edwardsville, Ill. The men placed fifth out of 30 teams with 222 points.

Photo by Ray MarklinGreg Polites, M.D., assistant professor and assistant director of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program, shows Ian English (left) and Vikram Sasi, both pre-med students, a head CT scan.Undergraduate biology course gives students a taste of life as an emergency department physician.

The survey will assist in determining accurate billing levels and program design.

C. Ronald Stephen, who retired as chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the School of Medicine in 1980, died Friday, Oct. 6, 2006, at St. Luke’s Hospital in Chesterfield, Mo., of complications from a recent heart attack. He was 90.

Andrew B. Newman, a senior mathematics and physics dual major in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is one of 18 undergraduate students selected nationwide by NASA astronauts to receive a $10,000 scholarship through the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF).

Junjie Chen, Ph.D., staff scientist, has received a two-year, $143,000 grant from the American Heart Association for research titled “Phenotypic Characterization of Cardiomyopathy in Dystrophic Mice Using Diffusion Sensor MRI.” … Tillmann Cyrus, M.D., senior scientist, has received a two-year, $143,000 grant from the American Heart Association for research titled “Three-dimensional Molecular Imaging of Intramural Biomarkers With Targeted Nanoparticles.” … Craig Glaiberman, M.D., instructor in radiology, has received a two-year, $121,000 grant from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation for research titled “Simulation: A Novel Method to Objectively Assess Interventional Skill Sets.” … Thomas Conturo, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of radiology, has received a one-year, $120,482 grant from the University of Pittsburgh/Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation for research titled “Diffusion Tensor Tracking of Connectivity Abnormalities in Autism.” … Amir Amini, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $110,000 grant from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation for research titled “Non-Invasive Measurement of Intravascular Pressures From MRI.” … Bernard Camins, M.D., instructor in medicine, has received a one-year, $110,000 grant from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation for research titled “Reducing Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections in the ICU With a Chlorhexidine-impregnated Sponge (Biopatch TM).” … Sandor Kovacs, M.D., associate professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $110,000 grant from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation for research titled “Real-time, Pressure Volume-based Assessment of Cardiac Function.” … Michael S. Hughes, Ph.D., research associate professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $109,537 grant from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation for research titled “Quantitative Ultrasonic Tissue Characterization of the Heart and Muscular Dystrophy.” … Joel Perlmutter, M.D., professor of neurology, has received a one-year, $88,000 grant from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation for the Handelman FundCryostat. … John Rice, Ph.D., professor of mathematics in psychiatry, has received a one-year, $71,223 grant from the University of Michigan/National Institute on Drug Abuse for research titled “Candidate Genes for Smoking in Related and Unrelated Individuals.” … Keith Woeltje, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $49,909 grant from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation for research titled “Improved Surveillance for Catheter-associated Bloodstream Infections.” … Anne Cross, M.D., professor of neurology, has received a one-year, $44,000 grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society for research titled “Restoring Glutamate Homeostasis in EAE.” … Robert Mecham, Ph.D., Alumni Endowed Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, has received a one-year, $28,770 grant from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation for the “Establishment of a Dynamic Microscopy Imaging Facility.” … Kerry Kornfeld, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of molecular biology and pharmacology, has received a one-year, $24,000 grant from the Longer Life Foundation for researching the effect of two candidate drugs on delay of aging and extension of the lifespan of mice.