Beata Grant receives Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching

Beata Grant, Ph.D., associate professor of Chinese and chair of the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures in Arts & Sciences, has received a 1999 Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Coordinating Board for Higher Education, a state policy board that oversees the Missouri Department of Higher Education.

Grant teaches a range of literature, religion and culture courses. One of her most popular courses, "Introduction to Asian Religions," takes students on a whirlwind tour of the major religious traditions of India, China and Japan. She also offers an introductory course on Buddhism in the various cultures of Asia and courses on religion and gender in Chinese literature and culture.

Grant received the award at a statewide higher education planning conference held late last year.

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Medical insurers should pay for clinical trials of experimental cancer treatments, Eberlein says

In Missouri and in most states, the cost of cancer clinical trials is borne by pharmaceutical companies, the federal government or patients and their families. Timothy J. Eberlein, M.D., director of The Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the School of Medicine, argues that medical insurers in Missouri should follow the example recently set in New Jersey and some other states and voluntarily cover cancer clinical trials.

"As a surgeon who has spent more than 20 years caring for cancer patients, I was encouraged to hear of the recent commitment by some medical insurers to pay for clinical trials of experimental cancer treatments," Eberlein said. "Here's why.

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Campus Authors

The book highlights 17 architectural projects by Luchini, director of architectural design at Sverdrup Facilities in St. Louis, and includes a foreword by noted architect Enric Miralles.

Luchini's international work ranges from a series of residences, each with their own distinct character, interaction with the landscape and sense of form in motion, to a Buenos Aires art museum with translucent, ethereal outer walls and an overall horizontal emphasis symbolizing the South American devotion to the land.

All of Luchini's projects underscore what architect Lauren Kogod refers to in the book's introduction as Luchini's "persistent attempt to create space out of expressive and almost physically gestural lines... a nervous or taut bundle of individual lines (that) coalesces into spatial figures and conjures spaces with ephemeral boundaries simultaneously from air and in air."

Luchini notes: "I draw what has shaped me, from the early days, full of dust in Argentina to the cacophony of adulthood in the United States. From the simplicity of an implacable horizon line... to the protocols of a profession increasingly confusing, and more and more difficult -- a cartography of pure desire and constant resistance."

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