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Ramesh Agarwal, Ph.D., the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has received a three-year, $219,232 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled "Projects in Complex Fluids and Their Applications." Agarwal also received the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' 2006 Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, which honors outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering by someone 20 years following graduation. In addition, Agarwal has been named a fellow of the World Innovation Foundation. …

David A. Peters, Ph.D., chair of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the McDonnell Douglas Professor of Engineering, and graduate students Antonio Hsieh (SEAS) and Almudena Torrero (Saint Louis University) received the Best Paper on Aerodynamics Award at the 62nd Annual Forum of the American Helicopter Society International, held last May in Phoenix. …

Karen O'Malley, Ph.D., professor of neurobiology, received the Service Award from the Washington University Academic Women's Network (AWN). Jack Ladenson, Ph.D., the Oree M. Carroll and Lillian B. Ladenson Professor of Clinical Chemistry in Pathology and Immunology and professor of clinical chemistry in medicine, received the AWN Mentor Award. Angela Reiersen, a post-doctoral research scholar in the Department of Psychiatry, and Jennifer Boland, who graduated from the School of Medicine in May, were each awarded the AWN Student Leadership Award. The awards recognize the individual's support and leadership in service to or advancement of women in the community. …

Eric T. Choi, M.D., assistant professor of surgery and of radiology, was named the 2006 Wylie Scholar in Academic Vascular Surgery by the Pacific Vascular Research Foundation. He receives a $150,000, three-year grant to continue his independent scientific investigations into arteriovenous access complications in patients undergoing hemodialysis due to kidney failure.

Obituary: Gee, former president of Jewish Hospital, 78

He was president of the hospital from 1968 to 1995.

Obituary: Strong, research engineer in Genome Sequencing Center, 36

Joseph T. Strong, a research engineer in the Genome Sequencing Center at the School of Medicine, died Saturday, Dec. 23, 2006.

Obituary: Schaerf, 98

Henry Schaerf, Ph.D., associate professor emeritus of mathematics in Arts & Sciences, died Sunday, March 5, 2006, in Seattle.

Obituary: Bolles, 87

William Lawrence Bolles, a former visiting professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, died Sunday, Dec. 17, 2006.

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