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[email protected]. WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS iecord Vol. 20 No. 4 Sept. 14, 1995 University-led environmental lab opening in Egypt As they ate fresh goat stew with nomads under a starry Egyptian sky in 1980, Mohamed Sultan and Neil Sturchio had little inkling that they would return in suits and ties 15 years later to establish Egypt's most modern environmental laboratory. The two, then Washington University graduate students in earth and planetary sciences, were performing geological field studies in the remote central Eastern Desert. Sultan, Ph.D., now a senior research scientist in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and other members of the department, are in Cairo to witness the creation of the Center for Environ- mental Hazard Assessment. Sultan and Sturchio, Ph.D., now a scientist with Argonne National Labora- tory in Illinois, are principal investigators on the U.S. side of the endeavor. The center is a comprehensive five-year $3.3 million project that will initiate the use of state-of-the-art environmental technology From left, Maggie Vitale and her 5-month-old daughter, Teresa, Todd Howard, M.D., head of the Department of Surgery's and equipment and an assortment of liver and kidney transplant programs, and Lorraine Stasiak.