Notables

Week of Jan. 24, 2011

Of note

D. Craig Allred, MD, professor of pathology and immunology, has received a one-year, $223,000 grant from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation for research titled “The Prognostic Significance of Invasion-Regulating Genes and Pathways in Human Ductal Carcinoma in situ (DCIS).” …

Jill Carnaghi, PhD, associate vice chancellor for students and dean of Campus Life, has received the 2010 NASPA (Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education) Region IV-West James J. Rhatigan Oustanding Dean Award. …

Da-Ren Chen, PhD, professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering, has received a one-year, $45,000 subaward from Mediomics Inc. for research titled “Topic 273: Process Analytic Technologies (PAT) for Biologics.” …

Joel Goebel, MD, vice chairman and professor of otolaryngology, was selected to join the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, a national professional association that oversees the medical education of specialists in Canada. …

Daniel Moran, PhD, associate professor of biomedical engineering, has received a one-year, $9,636 subaward from the University of Pittsburgh for research titled “Human Motor Cortical Activity During Observed Hand Movement for BCI.” …

Kenneth M. Olsen, PhD, assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, has received a four-year, $533,178 subaward from the University of Massachusetts for research titled “CPGS: Genomic Structure & Contemporary Evolution of Weediness in Red Rice.” …

Eugene M. Oltz, PhD, professor of pathology and immunology, and Jacqueline E. Payton, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and immunology, have received a five-year, $3,390,776 grant from the National Cancer Institute for research titled “Targeting Epigenomic Signatures in Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma for Novel Therapeutics.”

Obituary

John Hansford, who directed the university’s development communications program from 1982-2008, died Jan. 15, 2011, after a long illness. He was 68. A graduate of Georgetown University, Hansford served in the U.S. Army and worked at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, and Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, before joining WUSTL. Hansford founded the development communications program as WUSTL was launching the ALLIANCE fundraising campaign, which achieved a record of $630.5 million by 1987.

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