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David E. Kennell, PhD, professor emeritus of molecular microbiology, died April 20, 2011. He was 78 and lived in University City, Mo.

Phillip Tarr, MD, is a busy investigator juggling meetings, research, teaching and patient care. And he is a man driven to find answers to fight deadly diseases in newborns.

Ron Cytron, PhD, professor and associate chair of computer science and engineering, was named an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) fellow. The ACM fellowship recognizes the contributions of leaders in the computing field. … Anthony Fehr, a doctoral student in the Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program, received the $250 David M. Kipnis Award in […]

Rodolphe L. ”Rudy“ Motard, PhD, professor of chemical engineering and chairman from 1978-1991 of the chemical engineering department in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, died April 23, 2011. He was 85.

Srinivasan Sridharan, PhD, professor of civil engineering at Washington University in St. Louis since 1980, died April 24, 2011, at St. Johns Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis from complications of treatment for leukemia. He was 69.

Daniel E. Goldberg, MD, PhD, professor of molecular microbiology and of medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator in Medicine, was named to a four-year term as a member of the Pathogenic Eukaryotes Study Section, Center for Scientific Review of the National Institutes of Health. … Clifford Holekamp, senior lecturer in entrepreneurship at Olin […]

Her nose habitually buried in a Nancy Drew mystery, little Kathy Miller spent much of her girlhood trying to crack the case. Today, Kathryn G. Miller, PhD, professor and chair of biology in Arts & Sciences, still is playing detective. With Sherlock Holmes-like intensity, Miller studies cells the way a special agent scrutinizes a crime scene.

Walter F. Ballinger II, MD, former head of the Department of Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine, died Friday, April 29, 2011, of pneumonia at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He was 85.

At 37, Eric Leuthardt, MD, assistant professor of neurosurgery, is No. 5 on a list of the world’s 100 most prolific patent holders. He posts entries to his blog, Brains and Machines, on Tumblr about general brain science and his own work as a surgeon, teacher, researcher and inventor. He directs the Center for Innovation in Neuroscience and Technology, and he has just sent drafts of his first novel to prospective publishers.

Corey Deeken, PhD, instructor in surgery, has received a one-year, $99,995 2011 Research Grant from the Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation for research titled “Enzymatic Degradation of Biological Tissue-Based Scaffold Materials and the Effect on Tensile Strength Over Time.” … David Fike, PhD, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a […]