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School of Medicine scientists have identified a protein that helps accelerate brain tumor growth.

Photo by Joe AngelesThe Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will present The 78th Annual Fashion Design Show featuring student works at Saint Louis Galleria May 6. The fully choreographed, Paris-style extravaganza will feature more than 50 professional and volunteer models wearing more than 150 outfits created by 19 seniors and 12 juniors from the school’s Fashion Design program.

Photo by Robert BostonChance encounter led Michael Valente to forego law and take on audiology

F. Patrick Ross, Ph.D., research professor of pathology and immunology, received a two-year $368,500 National Institutes of Health National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) grant for research titled “Proteomics of Regulated Exocytosis in Osteoclasts.” … Arie Perry, M.D., associate professor of pathology and immunology, received a three-year, $258,675 Department of Defense subcontract with SARC for “Phase II Trial of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Sporadic and Neurofibromatosis Type I Associated High Grade Unresectable Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors.” … Rakesh Nagarajan, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology and immunology, received a one-year, $258,675 NCI contract from SAIC-Frederick Inc. to produce an analysis application “Function Express Gold: a caGRID-enabled Microarray Analysis Application.”

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Chancellor Emeritus William H. Danforth, M.D., and four faculty members received Outstanding St. Louis Scientist Awards at the Academy of Science-St. Louis annual dinner April 24 at the Chase Park Plaza in St. Louis.

From the helicopter assault in Apocalypse Now to Elmer Fudd singing “kill da wabbit” in What’s Opera, Doc?, “Ride of the Valkyries” by Richard Wagner (1813-83) is one of the most recognized motifs in Western music. The Washington University Opera will perform “Ride of the Valkyries” from Wagner’s opera Die Walküre (1870) as part of its “Evening at the Opera” concert at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 4 and 5,

*Veiled*The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will present its annual MFA Thesis Exhibition in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum May 11 to July 16. The exhibition will include approximately 60 artworks in a variety of media by 14 second-year master’s candidates from the Sam Fox School’s Graduate School of Art.

Andrey Shaw, M.D., has been named the Emil R. Unanue Professor of Immunobiology in the Department of Pathology and Immunology at the School of Medicine. The announcement will be made by Larry Shapiro, M.D., executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, at a symposium in honor of Unanue held on April 27 at the School of Medicine.

James T. Little, Ph.D., became the first recipient of the Donald Danforth, Jr. Distinguished Professorship in Business in a ceremony at the Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center.