Dr. Russell Ross, professor of pathology, has received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology, an organization devoted to advancing the study of cardiovascular disorders. The award, presented in March in Boston, recognizes Ross as one of the leaders in the field of vascular biology and disease. Chair of the Department of Pathology from 1982 to 1994, Ross is now director of the UW's Center for Vascular Biology. He is perhaps most widely known for first publishing in the early 1970s the "response to injury" hypothesis on the origins of atherosclerosis.

The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine's Division of Prosthetics and Orthotics has been awarded $150,000 per year for five years, starting this autumn, by the federal Department of Education Rehabilitation Services Administration to maintain and develop the UW's growing prosthetic and orthotic program. John Fergason, the division head and principal investigator, will lead faculty and staff in development of the new curriculum.