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				Every detail counts Caroline Blaker (left), a senior in the School of Art, discusses her ceramics with local resident Kim Goldman during the Clayton Art Fair Sept. 14. View in full Campus Authors Wysession Michael Wysession, Ph.D., associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes, and Earth Structure Michael Wysession, Ph.D., associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, is co-author of An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes, and Earth Structure. His co-author is Seth Stein, Ph.D., professor of geological sciences at Northwestern University. Full story Obituaries Tilford Brooks, Ed.D., 77 Brooks Tilford U. Brooks, Ed.D., professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, died Thursday, Sept. 5, 2002, at Barnes-Jewish Extended Care in Clayton, Mo., of a head injury suffered during a fall in May at a different facility. Martin D. Kamen, 89 Martin D. Kamen, one of the scientists who discovered radioactive carbon-14 and in doing so helped lay a foundation for deciphering the chemical processes in plants and animals, died Saturday, Aug. 31, 2002, at his home in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 89. Kamen was a professor of biochemistry at the University from 1945-1957.				Introducing new faculty members Paul A. Checchia, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, comes to the School of Medicine from Loma Linda University Children's Hospital (LLUCH), where he specialized in cardiovascular physiology and postoperative cardio-thoracic management. Joshua B. Smith, Ph.D., joins the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. He earned a bachelor's from the University of Massachusetts in 1994, and a master's in 1997 and a doctorate in 2002, both from the University of Pennsylvania. Priya Joshi, Ph.D., joins the Department of English in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. She earned a doctorate with distinction in English and comparative literature from Columbia University in 1995. Marina MacKay, Ph.D., joins the Department of English in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor. She earned a master's from the University of St. Andrews in 1999 and a doctorate in 2000 from the University of East Anglia. Full story Of note Rebecca J. DeRoo, Ph.D., Catherine A. Collins, Ph.D., Thomas W. Ferkol Jr., M.D., Richard J. Battafarano, M.D., Ph.D., Michael A. Province, Ph.D., Washington University's Project Ark, Elena Ignatove, Ph.D., Jay W. Heinecke, M.D., Yousef Abu-Amer, Ph.D., Kyunghee Choi, Ph.D., and Brian A. Wrenn, Ph.D. Full story Notables policy Submit all Notables to Andy Clendennen via e-mail, andrew_clendennen @aismail.wustl.edu, or by fax, 935-4259.

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