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Todd S. Braver, PhD, professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $40,000 grant from the National Institute on Aging to organize a conference titled “Mechanisms of Motivation, Cognition and Aging Interactions: Interdisciplinary Group Meeting.” …

Robert “Bo” Kennedy, MD, professor of pediatrics, spoke on “The Ouchless Emergency Room” March 2, 2012, for the Academy of Science-St. Louis at Kirkwood High School. …

David Sinacore, PhD, professor of physical therapy, has received a two-year, $152,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for research titled “Ex Vivo Validation of Image-Based Biomarker of Pedal Bone Quality.” …

Andrew Yoo, PhD, assistant professor of developmental biology, has received a three-year, $180,000 grant from the Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation for research titled “Induction of Brain Region-Specific Human Neurons by Direct Reprogramming.” …

Notables submissions

Submit all Notables regarding Danforth Campus faculty, staff and students to Kelly Wiese Niemeyer via e-mail at kelly.wiese@wustl.edu.

Submit all Notables regarding Medical Campus faculty, staff and students to Elizabethe Holland Durando via e-mail at elizabethe.durando@wustl.edu.