Of note

Linda J. Pike, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, has received a two-year $100,000 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a project titled "Compartmentalization of Phosphoinositides in Caveolae." ...

David E. Pollio, Ph.D., assistant professor of social work, has received a $117,956 grant as a subcontractor of Youth-in-Need for the project "Early Head-Start Community Collaborative." This program targets infants and families living in the most disadvantaged rural areas of St. Charles, Lincoln and Warren counties in Missouri. The goal is to enhance children's emotional, cognitive, physical and social development while helping parents achieve self-sufficiency. Sally Haywood, administrator for the Center for Mental Health Services Research, serves as evaluation administrator. The grant is from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families. ...

Dwight A. Towler, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, recently received a four-year $977,161 grant from the National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disorders for a project titled "Transcriptional Regulation by Fibroblast Growth Factor," emphasizing transcription factor biochemistry and signal transduction in osteoblasts. ...

George Varghese, Ph.D., and Subhash Suri, Ph.D., both associate professors of computer science, and Jonathan S. Turner, Ph.D., the Henry Edwin Sever Professor of Engineering, recently were awarded a three-year $965,353 grant from the National Science Foundation for their project titled "Fast Scalable Level Four Switching."

Speaking of

Jane Phillips-Conroy, Ph.D., associate professor of anatomy and neurobiology in the School of Medicine and associate professor of anthropology in Arts and Sciences, recently presented a paper titled "Multidisciplinary Research in the Ethiopian Baboon Hybrid Zone," as an invited participant in the symposium "Evolution of African Primates" in Inuyama, Japan.

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