Of note

Kwee L. Thio, M.D., assistant professor of neurology, has received a two-year, $365,805 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for research titled “Leptin as a Novel Neurohormonal Anticonvulsant.”…

John Shareshian, Ph.D., associate professor of mathematics, has received a three-year, $144,464 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Enumerative, Algebraic and Topological Combinatorics.”…

Sandor Kovacs, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, has received a two-year, $330,000 grant from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation for Cardiovascular Biophysics Research. …

David A. Balota, Ph.D., professor of psychology, has received a three-year, $66,651 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Construction and Utility of a Large Scale Semantic Priming Database.”