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June 12, 2008
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Bear Cub Fund grants given to five WUSTL professors

Washington University has awarded four Bear Cub Fund grants totaling $150,000 to support innovative research projects that could be attractive for licensing by commercial entities or serve as the foundation for a start-up company.

Faculty Achievement Award

Excellence in engineering



Young-Shin Jun, Ph.D., assistant professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering, is presented the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) 2008 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Achievement Award in Engineering or Applied Science by Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.

Of note

Melvin S. Blanchard, M.D.,
R. Gilbert Jost, M.D.
F. Scott Kieff, J.D.,
Tim Lempfert and more...


Carnaghi and Brown recognized by ACPA

Jill E. Carnaghi, Ph.D., assistant vice chancellor for students and director of campus life, and Michael G. Brown, coordinator of the Office for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Student Involvement and Leadership, were recognized with awards from the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) at its annual spring convention in Atlanta.

Doris named National Humanities Center fellow

John M. Doris, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy in Arts & Sciences, has been named a fellow of the National Humanities Center for the 2008-09 academic year.

Obituary: Berg, 69

Edward Frank Berg, M.D., assistant professor of clinical ophthalmology and visual sciences since 1972, died Friday, May 30, 2008. He was 69.

Obituary: Jermyn, 57

John William "Bill" Jermyn III, D.O., clinical instructor in the Division of Emergency Medicine, died suddenly Thursday, May 15, 2008.

Obituary: Keathley, 78

Sharon Keathley, secretary III at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology who retired in 1993, died Saturday, March 8, 2008, of complications from Alzheimer's disease at her home in St. Louis. She was 78.

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