James Mullins has been named chair of the Department of Microbiology, subject to approval by the UW Board of Regents.
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Aagaard Tower dedication and lecture take place May 24

The BB-Tower of the UW Health Sciences Center will be formally named the Aagaard Tower May 24 in memory of the second dean of the School of Medicine George N. Aagaard and in honor of his widow, Lorna Aagaard.
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Smith receives career achievement award

Ronald H. Smith, clinical professor of medicine at the Billings Clinic in Montana, has received the Ralph O. Claypoole Sr. Memorial Award from the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine. The award was presented April 22 at the organizations' annual meeting in New Orleans.
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John Loeser, professor of neurological surgery and anesthesiology, opens an eight-week series on pain management in tomorrow's issue of The Lancet, dated May 8, 1999.

Also contributing to the series are Dennis Turk, professor of anesthesiology, who explains how to evaluate someone who has pain, and C. Richard Chapman, professor of anesthesiology and psychiatry and behavioral sciences, who discusses the psychological and physiological aspects of suffering.