Author: Jessica Daues

The employee 2010-11 U-Pass — allowing WUSTL faculty and staff free use of Metro, the region’s public transportation system — will expire June 30.Benefits-eligible employees may request a new U-Pass for the 2011-12 fiscal year at the Parking & Transportation Services website. The new pass will be valid through June 30, 2012.

William A. Frazier, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, has received a one-year, $35,000 Pilot and Feasibility Study Grant from the Core Center for Musculoskeletal Research. … Indira Mysorekar, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, received a four-year, $600,000 grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for research titled “Occult Infections […]

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Tammie Benziger, MD, PhD, assistant professor of radiology, received the 2011 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award at the 7th Annual Postdoctoral Scientific Symposium March 29 at the School of Medicine. Najla Kfoury, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in neurology, was awarded Best Poster at the poster session. Five postdoctoral researchers presented research: Ignacio Gonzalez Suarez, PhD; […]

Do not stand idly by if you witness injustice, Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and human rights activist, told the Class of 2011 during WUSTL’s 150th Commencement ceremony May 20 in Brookings Quadrangle. “You must intervene,” he said. “You must interfere.”

Read the full text of Holocaust survivor and human rights activist Elie Wiesel’s speech at Washington University in St. Louis’ 150th Commencement May 20, 2011.

Many Danforth Campus students, faculty and staff are gone for the summer, but WUSTL Dining Services is keeping notable locations open to serve those remaining on campus.

The Guggenheim Foundation has selected Pascal Boyer, PhD, from among 3,000 nominees to be one of its fellows for 2011. Boyer, the Henry Luce Professor of Collective and Individual Memory and professor of sociocultural anthropology and of psychology, all in Arts & Sciences, was one of only 180 scholars selected for the highly esteemed honor.

Friday marks a new beginning for members of the Class of 2011. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton will confer degrees at the 150th Commencement ceremony, which begins at 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 20, in Brookings Quadrangle on the Danforth Campus.

Ron Cytron, PhD, professor and associate chair of computer science and engineering, was named an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) fellow. The ACM fellowship recognizes the contributions of leaders in the computing field. … Anthony Fehr, a doctoral student in the Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program, received the $250 David M. Kipnis Award in […]