Obituary: Janina Brajtburg, 84

Janina Brajtburg, Ph.D., research associate professor emeritus of infectious diseases, died Saturday, Sept. 9, 2006, of kidney failure in Philadelphia. She was 84. Brajtburg joined the Washington University faculty in 1968, when she and her family emigrated from Poland. She retired in 1993.

WUSTL botanists awarded

At its annual meeting this summer in Chiang Mai, Thailand, the Society for Economic Botany honored Memory Elvin-Lewis, Ph.D., adjunct professor of Microbiology and Ethnobotany at the School of Medicine; and Walter H. Lewis, Ph.D., professor emeritus of biology in Arts & Sciences “in recognition of outstanding achievement, research, and service to the field of economic botany.”

Mumps vaccine available

In light of two recent cases at Wheaton College in Illinois, Student Health Services is recommending that students review their mumps immunization history to make certain that they have received two doses of MMR vaccine or have had a blood test that indicates mumps immunity.
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