Bruce Backus, assistant vice chancellor for environmental health and safety, co-authored an article, "Regulatory Compliance and Training Assessment Tools," that appeared in the May/June 2011 issue of The Journal of Chemical Health & Safety. The article discusses how online tools developed by WUSTL and the University of Pennsylvania help research faculty, students and staff better understand regulatory compliance and training requirements. …

The Department of Romance Languages & Literatures in Arts & Sciences has received a one-year, $30,000 grant from the Educational Foundation of America for need-based scholarships to the department’s summer institutes in France, Italy and Spain for Summer 2012. …

Timothy M. Lohman, PhD, the Brennecke Professor of Biophysics in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, has received a four-year, $1,173,633 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for research titled “SSB Protein/DNA Interactions.” …

Robert P. Morgan, PhD, professor emeritus of technology and human affairs, presented a seminar to the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University April 26 on “Technology and Human Affairs at Washington University in St. Louis: A Personal History.” …

Stephen Oh, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, was named a Translational Scholar by and received a $200,000 award from the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research for research titled “Functional Characterization of LNK Mutations in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms.” …

Jean E. Schaffer, MD, the Virginia Minnich Distinguished Professor of Medicine, and Joan Luby, MD, professor of psychiatry, each received the Faculty Mentor Award from the Academic Women’s Network April 26.