Of note

Joseph Batchelor, PhD, of the Department of Molecular Microbiology; Drew Etheridge, PhD, of the Department of Molecular Microbiology; Andrew Kau, MD, PhD, of the Department of Pathology & Immunology; Michael Mahowald, MD, PhD, of the Department of Genetics; and Eric Tomko, PhD, of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; have been named 2010-11 W.M. Keck Postdoctoral Fellows in Molecular Medicine by the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences. Each year, the division selects four or five outstanding scientists in biomedical research with fewer than two years of postdoctoral research experience and awards each a fellowship of $25,000 for partial stipend support. This program was established and endowed at the School of Medicine in 1988 with a $900,000 grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation. …

William A. Frazier, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, received a one-year, $30,000 Siteman Cancer Center Research Development award for research titled “CD47 Blockade to Improve Tumor Radiotherapy.” …

Mona Lena Krook, PhD, assistant professor of political science and of women, gender and sexuality studies, both in Arts & Sciences, has received a five-year, $635,244 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Gender Quotas and Women’s Political Representation.” …

Arye Nehorai, PhD, the Eugene and Martha Lohman Professor and chair of the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering, has received a three-year, $324,717 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Algorithms, Performance and Design for Sparsity-Enforced Learning.” …

Lynne M. Rouse, graduate student in anthropology in Arts & Sciences, and Michael D. Frachetti, PhD, assistant professor of anthropology, have received a two-year, $18,000 grant from the National Science Foundation and an one-year $15,000 grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for research titled “The Ancient Murghab Archaeology Project: Perspectives on Bronze Age Interaction in Southern Turkmenistan.”

Speaking of

Kristi L. Holmes, PhD, bioinformatist at the Bernard Becker Medical Library; Leslie D. McIntosh, PhD, research instructor in pathology and immunology; Caerie Houchins, LAN administrator in Laboratory and Genomic Medicine; and Sunita B. Koul, senior programmer analyst at the Siteman Cancer Center, spoke at the First Annual Vivo National Conference in New York City Aug. 12-13. Holmes, the Vivo national outreach coordinator, also served as conference program planning chair. The School of Medicine is one of seven institutions working on the National Institutes of Health-funded Vivo project, a national network for sharing information between scientists.