Of note

Marco Colonna, MD, professor of pathology and immunology and of medicine, has received a three-year, $495,000 grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, for research titled “The Role of Viral Sensors in Type I Diabetes.” …

The Corner Building on Skinker and Delmar boulevards has been awarded the 2010 Regional Excellence Award for Urban Transformation-Renovation by St. Louis Construction News & Real Estate. Designed by Trivers Associates Inc. and constructed by Paric Corporation, the building contains retail space, apartments for graduate students and faculty, and a 21st-century functional architectural cornice consisting of wind turbines highlighted by color-changing LED wash lights. …

Namit Gaur, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, has received a two-year, $52,000 predoctoral fellowship grant from the American Heart Association for research titled “Calcium Cycling Disturbances and Hereditary Arrhythmias.” Namit will conduct research under the mentorship of Yoram Rudy, PhD, the Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor of Engineering. …

Randall Korotev, PhD, research professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $8,096 subaward from Rutgers University for research titled “Isotope Systematics in Lunar Materials: Implications for Mobility and Lunar Transport.” …

Susan Stark, PhD, assistant professor of occupational therapy and of neurology, received the Kopolow Award at the 10th Annual Friedman Conference May 25. The award recognizes stellar contributions to the care of older adults by a resident, post-residency fellow or non-tenured junior faculty member in neurology, psychiatry, medicine or related disciplines with experience on the geriatric services of Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center or at associated outpatient facilities. …

Emil R. Unanue, MD, the Paul and Ellen Lacy Professor of Pathology and Immunology, has received a three-year, $450,000 grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International for research titled “Antigen Presentation by Innate Immune Cells in Autoimmune Diabetes.”

Obituary

Arnola Rae “Mickey” Wetzel, psychometrician II at the School of Medicine from 1989-2003, died after a complicated illness Aug. 28, 2010. She was 78. She is survived by her husband, Richard Wetzel, PhD, professor of psychiatry, of neurological surgery and of neurology.