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Photo by Robert BostonSecond-year medical students play Jeopardy to review for an exam in Diseases of the Nervous System.

The women’s basketball team (19-5, 11-2 UAA) picked up two critical wins last weekend.

Photo by Kevin LowderXiaoqi Shi performs on violin and Fei Sun plays the pipa (a Chinese lute) during the Chinese New Year Celebration Feb. 17 in Brown Hall Lounge. Nearly 400 people attended the event, which was sponsored by the Chinese Students and Scholars Association.

The Washington University Symphony Orchestra will present the free concert at 3 p.m. Feb. 25 in Graham Chapel.

School of Medicine heart surgeons have developed and tested a device that radically shortens and simplifies a complex surgical procedure for persistent atrial fibrillation.

A total of $2 million in research grants to investigators on both the Danforth and Medical School campuses opens the door for science to begin at the Institute.

The regional is one of seven throughout the United States and western Europe.

The form is thought to have developed in the 16th and 17th centuries as a means of self-defense for slaves brought to Brazil by the Portugese.

Dwight Towler, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $215,147 grant from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation for “Bone and Mineral Diseases Research Operations.” … The Washington University orthopaedics center under construction in west St. Louis County received a $5,000 LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Incentive Grant from AmerenUE. The grants are designed to accelerate green building practices, energy conservation and environmental performance and to encourage construction of LEED-certified green buildings in the St. Louis region. Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital have committed additional funds to obtain LEED certification for the center, a joint project of the University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, and to adopt best green practices in its operation. … M. Alan Permutt, M.D., professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $165,000 grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International for research titled “Notch Signaling in Beta Cell Development and Regeneration” and a one-year, $92,054 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for research titled “Metabolic Basis of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: a Genetic Analysis.” … Carter Revard, Ph.D., professor emeritus of English in Arts & Sciences, was recently selected to receive the 2007 American Indian Festival of Words Author Award, which recognizes outstanding American Indian writers of this generation who have made significant contributions to American literature. The award consists of a cash prize of $5,000 and a commemorative medallion. Recently, the book “The Salt Companion to Carter Revard” was published, which features a wide-ranging collection of essays on Revard and his work. … Roberta Faccio, Ph.D., assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery, has received a two-year, $150,000 grant from the Arthritis Foundation for research titled “Role of PLC-Gamma2 in Inflammatory Arthritis.”… Daniel R. Mandelker, J.D., the Howard A. Stamper Professor of Law, has been appointed to a joint committee of the American Bar Association that is studying the administrative and judicial review process in land-use decision-making. His report on city planning reform in New Orleans, which he prepared a few years ago, recently was accepted by the Land Use Committee of the Bring New Orleans Back Commission as the basis for revision of the city’s charter. He is working with the Bureau of Governmental Research on charter revisions that are expected to be submitted at the next election. His co-authored casebook, “State and Local Government in a Federal System,” was published last spring. He has lectured nationally on land-use topics and the National Environmental Policy Act, and spoke on the New Orleans charter reforms at the January meeting of the Association of American Law Schools. …; Audrey McAlinden, Ph.D., research assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery, has received a two-year, $150,000 grant from the Arthritis Foundation for research titled “Regulation of the COL2A1 Alternative Splicing Switch During Chondrogenesis.” … Daniel P. Schuster, M.D., professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $109,468 grant from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation for research titled “FDG-PET Imaging as a Marker of Anti-inflammatory Drug Effects.” … Muthanna Al-Dahhan, Ph.D., professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering, has received a three-year, $600,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy under its Nuclear Energy Research Initiative for research titled “Advancing The Fundamental Understanding And Scale-up of TRISO Fuel Coaters via Advanced Measurement and Computational Techniques.” … Samuel Klein, M.D., the Danforth Professor of Medicine, has received a one-year, $104,729 grant for the Obesity Program Fund and a one-year, $54,031 grant for the David A. and Linda S. Yawitz Fund in Geriatrics and Nutritional Science, both from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation. … Stephen Highstein, M.D., Ph.D., professor of otolaryngology, has received a one-year, $91,291 grant from Mount Sinai School of Medicine for research titled “Chemoanatomic Bases for Peropheral Vestibular Function.”

The University is taking steps to increase security on campus, including adding peepholes in residence hall doors.