Of note

Peggy A. Neufeld, instructor in the Program in Occupational Therapy, received the Berlex Award for the Best Paper Presentation in Patient Education at the annual conference of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC), held recently in Kansas City. The conference is attended by international and interdisciplinary participants. ...

Krovvidi S.R. SivaSai, Ph.D., research associate in the Department of Surgery, recently received a Transplant Research Fellowship Award and a one-year fellowship of $40,000 from the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. The award was for a research project titled "Indirect Recognition of Donor HLA Peptides and Its Role in the Pathogenesis of Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome in Lung Transplant Recipients," which was presented at the society's annual meeting in San Francisco. ...

Salvatore P. Sutera, Ph.D., the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been selected to receive the 1999 UNICO National Guglielmo Marconi Science Award. UNICO ("unique" in Italian) is the largest Italian service organization in the United States. The award was established to recognize Italian Americans who have excelled in the sciences. Sutera will receive the award at UNICO's National Midwestern Regional Meeting, to be held Sept. 25 at the Adam's Mark Hotel in St. Louis. ...

Virgil Terrell, supervisor of housekeeping in the Department of Pediatrics, was selected by the Cleaning Management Institute as 1999 Custodial Supervisor of the Year. The award was presented to him in June at the Cleaning Management Educational Conference in San Francisco.

Speaking of

Dana L. Beth, art and architecture librarian, and Deborah K. Ultan, reference/subject librarian for art and architecture, recently presented a paper titled "Digital Image Technology in the Classroom: A Model for Implementation" at the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) University Testbed Research Meeting at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. The paper presents a model highlighting the shared funding and points of collaboration that were needed to begin introducing digital technology, in particular AMICO, into the visual arts curriculum at Washington University. In addition, it describes specific projects implemented during the testbed and discusses issues that need to be addressed at the organizational level. ...

Susan M. Binzer, coordinator and rehabilitative audiologist for the Hearing Rehabilitation and Cochlear Implant Program in the Department of Otolaryngology, and Laura K. Holden, research audiologist, recently presented results of their work with the Hearing Rehabilitation and Cochlear Implant Program at the American Academy of Audiology Annual Convention in Miami. Binzer participated in a panel discussion on the need, value and methods of maximizing cochlear implant recipients' benefits from the device. Holden was invited to present her research with advanced processing strategies of the Nucleus 24 Cochlear Implant System. ...

Stephen H. Legomsky, J.D., D.Phil., the Charles F. Nagel Professor of International and Comparative Law, recently delivered the annual John C. Paulus lecture at Willamette University in Salem, Ore. He also has spoken on various migration and refugee issues at conferences organized by Georgetown University, Southern Methodist University, the University of Miami and the Center for Migration Studies in Washington. In addition, he recently gave a luncheon address at a workshop atthe City University of New York. ... Daniel R. Mandelker, LL.B., J.S.D., the Howard A. Stamper Professor of Law, made presentations on land-use law at a conference of state hearing examiners in Washington state; at the annual conference of the Federalist Society in Washington, D.C.; and at a conference on wetlands preservation in St.Louis. He also made presentations on growth management techniques at a conference at the William and Mary School of Law.

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