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The Program in Physical Therapy has been awarded a five-year, $4.6 million grant to establish a training program for physical and occupational therapists.

The list of reasons to not smoke has gotten longer: School of Medicine researchers report that smoking interferes with ligament healing.

Judy Pfaff, *Neither Here Nor There,* 2003.Judy Pfaff is one of the most celebrated artists of her generation, known for crafting large-scale installations that combine local materials with elements of painting, sculpture and architecture. In October Pfaff — a 1971 graduate of Washington University — will return to St. Louis to discuss her work for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ fall Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

The following are among the new faculty members at the University. Cassie Adcoc, Asad Qadri Ahmed, Jean Allman, Xiumin Martin

J. Brian O’Loughlin, D.D.S., assistant in prosthodontics from 1968-69 and instructor in orthodontics from 1971-74 at the School of Dentistry, died Sunday, Sept. 2, 2007. He was 70.

Photo by David KilperJonathan M. Chase, Ph.D., associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, has been named director of the Tyson Research Center. Above, he and Ruth Poland, a senior in the Environmental Studies Program in Arts & Sciences, examine a spotted salamander larvae in one of the Tyson Research Center ponds. Chase is only the third permanent director to oversee research and activities at the 2,000-acre field site since 1970.

Marxism in China, taboo images in Tibet and war, sex work and memory in 20th century Japan will be among topics discussed as Washington University welcomes the 56th Annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs to St. Louis, Oct, 19-21. Program includes pre-conference workshop for K-12 teachers on Oct. 13

Robert Baloh, M.D., Ph.D., Sarah Borton, Katharina Lodders, Ph.D., Jennifer Loughman, And more…

Twenty-one years after they first described a fatal genetic disorder in Missouri and Arkansas families, School of Medicine scientists found mutations in a gene that will help to understand and treat retinal vasculopathy with cerebral leukodystrophy.

Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis are finding common ground between the shaping of the brain and the heart during embryonic development. Larry A.Taber, Ph.D., the Dennis and Barbara Kessler Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Philip Bayly, Ph.D., the Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering, are examining mechanical and developmental processes that occur in the folding of the brain’s surface, or cortex, which gives the higher mammalian brain more surface area (and hence more intellectual capacity) than a brain of comparable volume with a smooth surface.