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Sports updates for the week of Jan. 10, 2011.

Using a sophisticated version of the stroboscopic photography a pioneering photographer used in 1877 to prove that a horse takes all four hooves off the ground when it gallops, Michael L. Gross, PhD, professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences and of medicine and immunology in the School of Medicine, catches proteins in the act of folding.

F. Edmund Hunter Jr., professor emeritus of developmental biology, died Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011, of natural causes in St. Louis. He was 94.

On Jan. 12, 2010, Lora Iannotti, PhD, nutrition and public health expert at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, was in Leogane, a seaside town 18 miles west of Port au Prince, Haiti, working with local officials on improving the health of Haitian children. That’s when a catastrophic 7.0 earthquake struck the poverty-stricken country. Its epicenter, Leogane. Iannotti survived, but some 230,000 perished. Haiti was devastated; an estimated 3 million were affected by the earthquake in a country already known as the poorest in the Western hemisphere. Since last January, Iannotti, assistant professor at the Brown School, has returned to Haiti a number of times to continue her work on undernutrition and disease prevention in young children. She is back in Haiti again, one year later.

Three Washington University faculty — two from the School of Medicine and one from Arts & Sciences — have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.

The No. 5 women’s basketball team hit three 3-pointers with under a minute to play but was unable to come back from an 11-point second-half deficit in a 73-71 loss at the University of Chicago in the University Athletic Association (UAA) opener for both teams Jan. 8.

The men’s basketball team split a pair of games last week to drop its overall record to 6-5. Freshman Tim Cooney recorded the first double-double of his career with 13 points and a career-high 11 rebounds to lead the Bears to a 67-52 home victory over Benedictine University Jan. 4. Cooney was one of four players to score in double figures for Washington University.

The men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams returned to action after their winter break hiatus to compete against Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and Lindenwood University Jan. 7.

Men’s soccer senior back Harry Beddo was tabbed as a D3soccer.com 2010 NCAA Division III third-team All-American in the website’s inaugural postseason award announcement Jan. 7.

Junior midfielder Lee Ann Felder and sophomore goalkeeper Clara Jaques have been named to the 2010 Jewish Sports Review Women’s Soccer All-America Team, as announced by the publication.