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On May 3, the winners of the second annual Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition (SEIC) were announced at the Awards Ceremony on Washington University’s Danforth Campus. Six awards totallyin $125,000 were presented to four local nonprofits and two students. The winning groups are: The Bridge St. Louis, One World Neighborhood Cafe, the Miriam Center, the Nest, MOAR for Life and Cents City.

The School of Medicine is seeking online faculty input on the strategic plan being developed as part of the University-wide “Planning for Excellence” initiative.

Photo by David KilperTrinity Hodges inks an etching plate to run through a printing press as her mother, Traci Hodges of the John M. Olin School of Business Career Center, watches.The activity was part of the annual Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day April 26, which featured 18 different campus-wide programs offered for parents and their children.

Jai Nagarkatti, president and chief executive officer of Sigma-Aldrich, was elected to the Board of Trustees at Washington University in St. Louis at its meeting May 4, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. In addition, the trustees reappointed two former board members and reelected seven others.

The School of Law’s Center for Empirical Research in the Law will host the workshop “Conducting Empirical Legal Scholarship” May 21-23 in Anheuser-Busch Hall.

Matthew J. Ellis, M.D., Ph.D., is looking to use the genetic profile of breast tumors to guide therapy and to find new drugs to treat the disease.

Photo by Joe AngelesMetro employees hang an Earth Day mural in the Skinker MetroLink station near the Danforth Campus April 20. The colorful mural, titled “St. Louis Kids Paint for Global Climate Change Awareness,” consists of 200 plywood puzzle pieces. The individual pieces were painted by elementary and middle school students throughout St. Louis City and County.

Photo by Robert BostonBrian K. Phillips is helping revitalize the Forest Park Southeast area

“A Temple of Texts” by William H. Gass, Ph.D., the David May Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, is the 2007 winner of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin — the largest annual cash prize for literary criticism in the English language.

Joshua Shimony, M.D., associate professor of radiology, has received a five-year, $607,736 grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for research titled “A Bayesian Approach to MR Tractography in the Developing Brain.”… Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D. professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $14,880 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Man the Hunted: The Origins and Nature of Human Sociality.”… Victoria L. Brown-Kennerly, Ph.D., research instructor in genetics, has received a five-year, $495,000 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for research titled “Gut Colonization by C. albicans: Interactions with the Host and its Microbiota.”… Jan P. Amend, Ph.D., associate professor of geochemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $1,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Microbial Ecology of Ocean Basement Aquifers: ODP Borehole Observatories.”