Keith Bridwell, MD, the Asa C. and Dorothy W. Jones Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, and Lawrence Lenke, MD, the Jerome J. Gilden, MD, Endowed Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, are the 2011 recipients of the National Marfan Foundation’s Hero with a Heart Awards, which will be presented Feb. 26 at Heartworks St. Louis at the Chase Park Plaza. …
Caroline Hillard, PhD, postdoctoral teaching fellow in art history in Arts & Sciences, has received the Society for Italian Historical Studies’ Best Unpublished Manuscript Award, which awards a prize of $400 for the best unpublished manuscript on the history of Italy, for her dissertation “An Alternate Antiquity: The Etruscans in Renaissance Florence and Rome.” …
Clifford Holekamp, senior lecturer in entrepreneurship at Olin Business School, has been named one of 2011’s “40 Under 40” by the St. Louis Business Journal, which recognizes young professionals who have made a mark on the local business community. Holekamp was profiled in the St. Louis Business Journal’s Jan. 28 issue and will be recognized with his 39 fellow honorees at a dinner and awards program Feb. 17 at the Renaissance Grand Hotel. …
Baranidharan Raman, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has received a two-year, $90,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce for research titled “Pattern Recognition Methods for Non-Invasive Chemical Monitoring in Complex Environments.” …
Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck, MD, PhD, associate professor of pathology and immunology and of developmental biology, has received a five-month, $674,444 grant from the Washington University/Pfizer Biomedical Research Program for research titled “Genotyping Molecular Profiling and Sequencing of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients.”
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