Introducing new faculty members
The following are among the new faculty members at the University. Others will be introduced periodically in this space.
Between the stacks
Photo by Alison CarrickWUSTL film archivist David Rowntree (right) speaks to students from New York University’s Moving Image Archivists Program as they tour the WUSTL Film & Media Archive’s climate-controlled vault at the West Campus Library. The students visited WUSTL Nov. 4 as part of the 2009 Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference in St. Louis Nov. 4-7.
Of note
Rudolf Husar, Ph.D.,
Jeffrey D. Milbrandt, M.D., Ph.D.,
D.C. Rao, Ph.D., and more…
Join Great American Smokeout events Nov. 19 at medical school
The Great American Smokeout events will be Nov. 19 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center and in the Center for Advanced Medicine.
Panel to discuss choices for women Nov. 17
Women undergraduate and graduate students can discuss post-graduation choices and how to attain a successful, fulfilling life at “Composing a Life” from 6-8 p.m. Nov. 17 in the Whitaker Hall Auditorium. The discussion, hosted by the Women’s Society of Washington University, will feature five women with career experience in an array of fields from graphic […]
Roger Rees brings one-man show on Shakespeare to Edison
At 8 p.m. Nov. 20 at Edison Theatre, Roger Rees, a 22-year veteran of television, movies and the Royal Shakespeare Company, comes to campus with “What You Will,” a side-splitting one-man-show that combines the Bard’s greatest soliloquies with colorful observations about the acting life and offbeat tales of theatrical disaster.
Meyers named Williamson Chair in Cardiothoracic Surgery
Bryan F. Meyers, M.D., has been named the Patrick and Joy Williamson Endowed Chair in Cardiothoracic Surgery.
Center seeks to solve unsolvable problems in medicine
The Center for Innovation in Neuroscience and Technology brings scientists together from different backgrounds to solve challenging medical problems.
It’s in the jeans
Photo by Joe AngelesStephen F. Brauer (left), James M. McKelvey, Ph.D. (center), former dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, and Camilla T. Brauer tour the new engineering building on the Danforth Campus Oct. 30. The 150,875-square-foot building will be called Stephen F. and Camilla T. Brauer Hall and is on schedule to be completed by spring 2010.
Looking toward our energy future
Photo by Joe AngelesSteven F. Leer (left), president and CEO of Arch Coal, and Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton listen as Maxine L. Savitz, Ph.D., vice president of the National Academy of Engineering and a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, answers a question from the audience at America’s Energy Future, a symposium to discuss the National Research Council’s roadmap for the country’s energy future.
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