Faculty honored by St. Louis Academy of Science April 16 | |
| Louis V. Avioli, M.D., the Sydney M. and Stella H. Schoenberg Professor of Medicine and professor of orthopaedic surgery, and Leonard Berg, M.D., professor of neurology, will be honored at an April 16 dinner by the Academy of Science of St. Louis with Peter H. Raven Lifetime Awards. At the same event, Scott J. Hultgren, Ph.D., associate professor in molecular microbiology, will receive the academy's Innovation Award. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton will be the featured speaker. Avioli will be honored for his research on osteoporosis. His discoveries laid the basis for a current study of vitamin D and its principal role in regulating calcium metabolism. His work has led to the recognition of the causes of osteoporosis and the development of widely used treatments for bone loss in postmenopausal women and the elderly. |
 Louis V. Avioli, M.D. |
Charles Zorumski named Guze professor of psychiatry | |
 Charles F. Zorumski, M.D. |
Charles F. Zorumski, M.D., head of the Department of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine and psychiatrist-in-chief at Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children's hospitals, will be the first person to hold the Samuel B. Guze Professorship in Psychiatry. The professorship was established by Samuel B. Guze, M.D., and his wife, Joy. Announcement of the newly created chair was made by Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and William A. Peck, M.D., executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the medical school. "An endowed chair is one of the most coveted gifts a university can receive, and I thank the Guzes for their gift and their lifelong devotion to Washington University," Wrighton said. |
Gravity-sensing system in inner ear will be studied on shuttle missionWhen the next space shuttle mission begins April 16, a group of School of Medicine researchers will be inside NASA's Kennedy Space Center. But instead of tracking Columbia's white plume on takeoff, they will be glued to monitors that will reveal how four toadfish handle the flight. Stephen M. Highstein, M.D., Ph.D., professor of otolaryngology and of anatomy and neurobiology; Allen Mensinger, Ph.D., research instructor in otolaryngology; and other members of Highstein's laboratory will study the response of these saltwater fish to the near-zero gravity conditions in a shuttle orbiting above Earth's atmosphere. By doing so, they hope to find out why astronauts suffer from something akin to motion sickness the first few days in space. |
 At an April 9 Cori Society event at the City Museum for faculty, students and their families, Walton Sumner II, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, works with his 3-year-old daughter, Holly, in a paper maché sculpture workshop. The Cori Society provides a forum for students and faculty to interact in informal settings. |
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