Author: Ken Duenke

The Vanderbilt Law School dean will take over at WUSTL effective Jan. 1; he’ll also become the Ethan A.H. Shepley University Professor.

Photo by Kevin LowderThe School of Social Work held its annual International Festival April 22 in Brown Hall; the theme was “Crossroads: Celebrating One World.”

He’s internationally known for his research on the molecular basis of the heart’s metabolism, or how the heart obtains energy to function.

He was formerly the vice chairman for research in the Department of Psychiatry; he’ll return to that position next summer.

Two Loeb fellows will be selected from the clinical or investigator-track faculty at the School of Medicine.

A professor and president of the school’s alumni association, he was honored as a distinguished alumnus in 1989.

“George took enormous and justifiable pride in his depth of knowledge and expertise in mycology,” colleague Russell Little Jr. said.

Photo by Robert BostonFaculty, staff and students enjoy the “Managing Knowledge in the Digital Domain” symposium sponsored by the Bernard Becker Medical Library.

SyverudKent D. Syverud, dean of the Vanderbilt University Law School, has been named dean of the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, effective Jan. 1, 2006, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. He also will become the Ethan A. H. Shepley University Professor. Joel Seligman, who came to Washington University in 1999 to serve as law dean, will become president of the University of Rochester on July 1, 2005. Prior to Syverud’s arrival, Daniel L. Keating, associate dean for academic affairs and the Tyrrell Williams Professor of Law, will serve as dean until Dec. 31, 2005.

Letter from Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton to SWA members continuing the dialogue and efforts to resolve the sit-in.