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Gustav Schonfeld, MD, has died in New York City while on vacation visiting his children. The pioneering lipid researcher and former head of the Department of Medicine passed away due to complications from myelofibrosis.

Tammie Benziger, MD, PhD, assistant professor of radiology, received the 2011 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award at the 7th Annual Postdoctoral Scientific Symposium March 29 at the School of Medicine. Najla Kfoury, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in neurology, was awarded Best Poster at the poster session. Five postdoctoral researchers presented research: Ignacio Gonzalez Suarez, PhD; […]

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum is one of the oldest university museums in the country. This summer, the museum will resume its Lunch & Learn program, a popular series of lunchtime tours open to any campus department or group.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 […]