Newsroom Stories

Jacqueline Tatom, assistant professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, died at her home in the Central West End Sunday, March 18, following a long battle with ovarian cancer. She was 51.

The following incidents were reported to University Police March 8-20. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. March 9 4:52 p.m. — A call was received from Millbrook #4 regarding a suspicious male who had entered a student’s apartment at this location. The student asked the subject to leave and he did so. he student described the subject as an African-American male, 5’6″, between 20-25 years old, wearing a black puffy coat, black hat and black pants. The subject was apprehended just east of the Millbrook overpass. Nothing was taken from apartment. March 13 3:30 a.m. — A caller reported a fire in a large trashcan outside McMillen Lab. Clayton Fire Department responded to extinguish the fire. Four suspects were seen fleeing from the fire. March 14 10:12 a.m. — A complainant reported damage to a door in Anheuser-Busch Hall that occurred sometime within the past three years. University Police also responded to three lost articles, false fire alarm, two assaults, two auto accidents and one report each of burglary and drug violation.

David G. Roskies, expert in Jewish literature, will present “1943: The Jewish World at Ground Zero” at 8 p.m. March 29 in McDonnell Hall, Rm. 162.

Linda Van Dillen, Ph.D., assistant professor of physical therapy, has received a four-year, $1,438,316 grant from the National Institutes of Health-National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research for research titled “Classification-directed Treatment of Low Back Pain.” … Michael R. DeBaun, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics and of neurology; Michael S. Diamond, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, of pathology and immunology and of microbiology; and Russell Van Gelder, M.D., Ph.D. associate professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences and of molecular biology and pharmacology, each received a five-year, $750,000 Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research from Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The awards are intended to support established, independent physician-scientists who are dedicated to translational research and mentoring physician-scientist trainees. .…

The last blood drives of the semester will be held March 26-29. Organizers urge everyone in the WUSTL community to participate and help make this the most successful drive of the year.

The George Warren Brown School of Social Work’s 13th annual International Festival begins on March 28 with a forum called “Prospects and Challenges of Integrating Immigrants and Refugees into the St. Louis Community,” from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in Brown Hall Lounge.

The University has been selected as one of 19 colleges and universities nationwide that will host the 2007 ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp, sponsored by ExxonMobil Corp. and led by Bernard Harris, M.D., a former NASA astronaut and the first African-American to conduct a spacewalk.

Photo by David KilperJulie Shimabukuro passes along her enthusiasm for WUSTL when recruiting international students

Colin G. Nichols, Ph.D., has become the first Carl F. Cori Professor at the School of Medicine.

Robert L.E. Egger, founder and president of the non-profit culinary arts job-training program D.C. Central Kitchen, will speak on “Using Punk Rock and Leftover Food to Change the World” at 4:30 p.m. March 27 in Room 132 of Goldfarb Hall.