Of note

Robert H. Arch, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, has received a four-year, $200,000 grant from the Cancer Research Institute for research titled “TRAF-mediated Signaling Pathways Regulating Tumor Cell Apoptosis.” …

Shirley K. Baker, vice chancellor for information technology and dean of University Libraries, has been appointed to a three-year term on Secretary of State Matt Blunt’s Council on Library Development. Baker will represent Missouri academic libraries on the council, which advises the secretary of state and the state librarian. …

Christopher I. Byrnes, Ph.D., dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science and the Edward H. and Florence G. Skinner Professor of Systems Science and Mathematics, is co-editor of a new book, Directions in Mathematical Systems Theory and Optimization. The publisher is Springer Verlag. …

Frank C.P. Yin, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Biomed-ical Engineering and the Stephen F. and Camilla T. Brauer Profes-sor of Biomedical Engineering, has been named to the National Institute of Biological Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) national advisory council. The NIBIB is a National Institutes of Health research institute. …

Zeuler Lima, assistant professor in the School of Architecture, spoke on “São Paulo as a City of Dissent: An Oblique View Through Recent Housing Movements” for the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) international conference “Import/Export: Latin American Urbanities” March 7. Lima co-authored the presentation with Vera M. Pallamin of the Universidade de São Paulo. The project was supported by the GSD, The Federal Cultural Foundation of Germany, The Caracas Urban Think Tank and AULA: Architecture & Urbanism in Las Américas. …

Elizabeth C. Childs, Ph.D., associate professor of art history and archaeology in Arts & Sciences, chaired a session at the College Art Conference in New York City recently. Her session, sponsored by the Association for Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art, was titled “The Witness: Writing the Biography of the Nineteenth-Century Artist.” She also delivered a paper on March 7 at the international Gauguin symposium held at the University of French Polynesia, in Papeete, Tahiti, on the subject of Gauguin and colonial photography. …

Timothy M. Ritty, Ph.D., assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery, received the “New Investigator Research Award — Top Presentation Overall in N.I.R.A. Category” at the 2003 Orthopaedic Research Society National Meeting.