Author: Ken Duenke

Photo by Mary ButkusClifford M. Will, Ph.D., was installed as the James S. McDonnell Professor of Physics in Arts & Sciences April 14 in Holmes Lounge.

From traditional foods to lively entertainment, international students at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work will offer a taste of their homelands at the 11th annual International Festival 5-9:30 p.m. April 22 in Brown Hall. The event will begin with an international banquet and art exhibition from 5-7:30 p.m. in Brown Hall Lounge. This year’s theme is “Crossroads: Celebrating One World.” The entertainment, which includes dance, song and poetry from numerous countries, will start at 7:30 p.m. in Brown Hall Room 100. All events are free and open to the public.

Park hosts a party for cerebral palsy patients from around the world.T.S. Park, M.D., the Shi H. Hung Professor of Neurosurgery and neurosurgeon in chief at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, recently received the Korean Overseas Compatriots Award from the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) at a ceremony in Seoul. The network presents the national award to people in the fields of natural science, societal service, the arts and business who enhance the image and reputation of the country while living abroad

The William Greenleaf Eliot Society’s highest honor, the Search Award, was awarded to John F. McDonnell and Sam Fox at the 38th annual Eliot Society dinner held April 13 at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Clayton.

Jonathan Gitlin will serve as director of the new Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics.The separate worlds of patient care and genomic science will be brought together in the new Division of Genetics and Genomic Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine. Plans for the division map out a model of individualized medical care in which physicians look to a patients’ genetic makeup to determine the most effective treatment.

Washington University continues in its effort to initiate a plan for addressing the ongoing needs of lower-paid contract service employees and reiterates our growing concern for the health and well being of the students engaging in a high-risk, life-threatening hunger strike at South Brookings Hall. The University has repeatedly informed the students that their hunger strike creates a significant risk to their health and safety and that the University cannot stand idly by while students take a self-destructive action on our premises.

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton met with the Student Worker Alliance sit-in participants at 3 p.m. today. During the meeting, held in South Brookings Hall, the chancellor presented the following letter.

She’ll give The Women’s Society of Washington University Adele Starbird Lecture for the Assembly Series; a book-signing will precede the talk.

The recent scandals at Enron, Worldcom, and A.I.G. marred the business world in a way particularly damaging to accountants. While many people might be surprised that conservative, rule-following accountants could have been involved in playing with the books, Ron King, the Myron Northrop Professor of Accounting in the Olin School of Business, says we shouldn’t […]

File PhotoT.S. Park, M.D., has earned international acclaim for his groundbreaking cerebral palsy research.He was given the Korean Overseas Compatriots Award from the Korean Broadcasting System at a ceremony in Seoul.