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Ellen Damschen, Ph.D., Todd Decker, Ph.D., Clarissa Rile Hayward, Ph.D., Simine Vazire, Ph.D.

Gail PetersGail A. Peters has been appointed executive director of compliance and audit at Washington University in St. Louis, announced Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. Peters, formerly the director of internal audit and university compliance officer at the university, will report to the chancellor and will oversee the Internal Audit Department and University Compliance Office.

Henry S. Webber, vice president for community and government affairs at the University of Chicago, will become WUSTL’s executive vice chancellor for administration, announced Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. Webber’s appointment will be effective March 1, 2008. Webber will be the University’s chief administrative officer and oversee facilities, campus planning, capital projects, campus security and off-campus real estate acquisition and development.

Henry WebberHenry S. Webber, vice president for community and government affairs at the University of Chicago, will become executive vice chancellor for administration at Washington University in St. Louis, announced WUSTL Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. Webber’s appointment will be effective March 1, 2008.

The largest building ever constructed on the School of Medicine campus will be the home base for BioMed 21, the University’s innovative research initiative designed to speed scientific discovery and to rapidly apply breakthroughs to patient care.

Photo by Robert BostonA $30 million gift from BJC HealthCare will help construct a new seven-story research building on the School of Medicine campus.

In print Carter C. Revard, Ph.D., professor emeritus of English in Arts & Sciences, has a poem titled “We do like Capistrano, but …” in the current issue (Vol. 12, No. 2) of Salamander, a magazine for poetry, fiction and memoirs. His scholarly essay titled “Oppositional Thematics and Metanarrative in MS Harley 2253, Quires 1-6” […]

Charly Coleman, Ph.D., Clifton R. Emery, Ph.D., Carl Minzner, J.D., John Orrock, Ph.D., Thomas Sattig, Ph.D., Vincent Sherry, Ph.D., Julie Singer, Ph.D., Ying Xie, Ph.D.

Gail A. Peters has been appointed executive director of compliance and audit, announced Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. Peters, formerly the director of internal audit and University compliance officer, will report to the chancellor and will oversee the Internal Audit Department and University Compliance Office.

A 16,000 square-foot data center is being constructed on Newstead Avenue to meet the massive computing needs of the Genome Sequencing Center.