Yousef Abu-Amer, PhD, professor of orthopaedic surgery and of cell biology and physiology, has received a four-year, $800,000 grant from the Shriners Hospital for Children for research titled “Mechanisms of Bone Loss Associated With Immuno-Inflammatory Diseases.” …

Vicki Kaskutas, OTD, assistant professor of occupational therapy, joined the National Occupational Research Agenda Construction Sector Council of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. …

Timothy Nice, PhD, a postdoctoral research scholar in pathology and immunology, has received a three-year, $150,000 postdoctoral fellowship award from the American Cancer Society for research titled “Norovirus Persistence and its Contribution to Tumorigenesis.” …

Michael Scullin, graduate student in psychology in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $146,070 grant from the National Institute on Aging for research titled “The Role of Sleep in Cognitive Declines in Normal Aging and Mild Cognitive Impair.” …

Alian Wang, PhD, research associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $70,002 subaward from the SETI Institute for research titled “The Mars Microbeam Raman Spectrometer (MMRS) for Robotic Investigation of Subsurface Life in the Atacama Desert.”