Author: Jessica Daues

Use the back sides of printer paper waste rather than fresh sheets for personal notes or doodling.

Photo by Mary ButkusFaculty achievement award winners Enola K. Proctor, Ph.D. (left), and Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D., get a sneak peak of their award plaques before the faculty achievement awards ceremony Dec. 5 at the May Auditorium in Simon Hall. Proctor received the Arthur Holly Compton Award for Faculty Achievement, and Gordon was presented the Carl and Gerty Cori Award for Faculty Achievement.

Nine Washington University Libraries will be closed from Dec. 25-Jan. 3, 2010, and will operate on a shortened schedule during throughout intersession (Dec. 18-Jan. 18). Students, faculty, and staff will continue to have full access to the libraries’ online resources throughout the intersession.

In honor of Whittemore House’s 40th anniversary as a premier gathering space, the Whittemore House board of directors has voted to alter membership requirements to make the facility more accessible to University faculty and staff members.

Robert L. Grubb Jr., M.D., professor emeritus of neurosurgery, continues to be an active member of the University community, seeing outpatients in clinics three days a week, serving as the principal neurosurgical investigator on a major multicenter clinical trial and working on a history of the Department of Neurosurgery in honor of its upcoming centennial in 2011.

Nathan A. Baker, Ph.D., Michael R. Brent, Ph.D., Philip Burkhardt and Brendan Wittstruck, Robert Criss, Ph.D., and more…

Photo by Whitney CurtisITeach 2010, a biennial event at which WUSTL faculty can gather to share insights on teaching and to learn about new teaching methods and technology, will take place Jan. 14, 2010, in Seigle Hall.

The same oil used on the Danforth Campus to make french fries is powering a truck near you. Used vegetable oil from WUSTL Dining Services kitchens is being reused as biodiesel in a dining services vehicle on campus.

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton received the Right Arm of St. Louis Award from the St. Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association (RCGA) Jan. 21 at the 173rd RCGA annual meeting and dinner at the Chase Park Plaza. A video honoring the WUSTL chancellor produced by the RCGA was recently released.

A Siteman Cancer Center patient has established a multiple myeloma research fund in the Department of Medicine’s Division of Oncology.