T. Scott Isbell, Ph.D., clinical fellow in pathology and immunology, has received a two-year, $100,000 2008 Past-Presidents’ Scholarship Award from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry’s Van Slyke Foundation to support postdoctoral training in laboratory medicine. …
LeAndra Luecke, graduate student in anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $4,320 grant from the Riverbanks Conservation Support Fund for research titled “Nutrient and Toxin Analysis of Foods Consumed by Mantled and Black Howling Monkeys in Mangrove Habitat.” …
Rakesh Nagarajan, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology and immunology, and Mark Watson, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pathology and immunology, will head a new Knowledge Center for the caTissue Core/caTissue Suite software under a three-year, $1.25 million grant from the National Cancer Institute. The funds will allow them to help cancer researchers everywhere make use of caTissue, software they developed for standardizing storage of data on cancer patient tissue samples. …
The WUSTL chapter of the Theta Xi Fraternity has been recognized as an “All True Men” chapter. The designation recognizes the demonstrated commitment of the membership of a chapter to live out the fraternity’s core historic values of leadership, brotherhood, scholarship and service. The WUSTL chapter is the eighth chapter in Theta Xi to be granted this status.