Five WUSTL undergraduate students who graduated in May have been named to the USA Today’s 2010 All-USA College Academic Team. Tegan Bukowski and Chase Sackett were named to the second team, Cameron Ball was named to the third team, and Emily Becker and Andrew Hoekzema were named as honorable mentions. …
Han Kim, a rising second-year medical student, has received the 2010 Alpha Omega Alpha Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship in support of his summer research. His project will investigate the possibility that abnormal wiring between the eyes and the brain observed in the Phr1 mutant mouse is the result of abnormal synaptic activity. …
A group led by rising third-year medical student David Levine and rising second-year medical students Tammy Shirley and Dorothy Van Oppen received a $2,000 grant from Alpha Omega Alpha to fund a “Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program” project. This project will include a six-week nutrition course for low-income families at the North City Farmers’ Market and at least three months of coupon incentives to spend at the farmers market. …
Julie Margenthaler, MD, assistant professor in the Department of Surgery, has received a two-year, $171,164 award from Northwestern University/National Institutes of Health for research titled “Pre-Surgical Phase IIB Trial of Transdermal 4-Hydroxytamoxifen vs. Oral Tamoxifen in Women with Duct Carcinoma in Situ of the Breast.” …
Mohammad J. Warsi, PhD, lecturer in South Asian languages and linguistics in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $25,000 subaward from the University of Chicago as part of a South Asia Language Resource Center grant to develop online teaching materials for one of the South Asian languages.
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