Numbers talk

Photo by Whitney CurtsRichard Rochberg, Ph.D. (right), professor of mathematics in Arts & Sciences, speaks with Nets Katz, Ph.D., professor of mathematics at Indiana University, during “Function Spaces and Their Operators: A Conference in Honor of Richard Rochberg on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday,” May 30 in Cupples I.

“Seven Veils for St. Louis”

Courtesy ImageThe Sheldon Art Galleries at 3648 Washington Blvd. currently is hosting an exhibition of recent projects by Jen Maigret and Don Koster, both Cynthia Weese Teaching Fellows in the Sam Fox School’s Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design.

Engineering undergraduates study in China this summer

Ruth Chen, Ph.D., research associate in the Department of Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, and Jay R. Turner, Ph.D., associate professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering, are leading an international exchange program for the department this summer to Beijing.

Excellence in engineering

Photo by Joe AngelesYoung-Shin Jun, Ph.D., assistant professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering, is presented the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) 2008 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Achievement Award in Engineering or Applied Science by Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.

Of note

Melvin S. Blanchard, M.D., R. Gilbert Jost, M.D. F. Scott Kieff, J.D., Tim Lempfert and more…

Personalized therapy for asthma, lung disease could soon be here

School of Medicine researchers have defined a new type of immune response that is activated in patients with severe asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Their discovery could dramatically improve diagnosis and treatment of patients with chronic inflammatory lung disease.