Author: Ken Duenke

James T. Little, Ph.D., became the first recipient of the Donald Danforth, Jr. Distinguished Professorship in Business in a ceremony at the Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center.

Photo by Mary ButkusJeannie Chan, a 2008 MBA candidate, discusses her research with representatives from General Electric Co. at the International Business Outlook Conference (IBOC) April 20 at the Olin School of Business. This year’s conference showcased several Olin MBA students who have provided leadership in finding solutions for global institutions.

Shirley Lute, a 77-year-old victim of domestic violence, will be released from prison thanks to the efforts of the School of Law’s Civil Justice Clinic and Jane Aiken, J.D., the William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law and director of the clinic.

Photo by Mary Butkus(From left) Lorraine Gnecco; her husband, Stephen H. Legomsky, J.D., D.Phil.; Ruth Chi-Fen Chen, Ph.D., research associate in the School of Engineering & Applied Science; and her husband, Kent D. Syverud, J.D., dean of the School of Law and the Ethan A.H. Shepley University Professor, at Legomsky’s installation as the inaugural John S. Lehmann University Professor March 26.

The University, one of many universities receiving inquiries from the Office of Attorney General of the State of New York concerning student lending practices — as well as an inquiry from the Missouri Office of Attorney General — has agreed with both the Missouri and New York attorneys general to adopt a code of conduct guiding the University’s relations with private lenders from whom the University’s students and their families seek college financing.

UnanueImmunology researchers from across the United States and as far away as Sweden are coming to the School of Medicine to discuss some of the latest scientific insights into the immune system. The general public is welcome to attend.The symposium, “Immunology at the Horizon of the New Millennium,” is being held in honor of Emil Unanue, M.D., the Paul and Ellen Lacy Professor of Pathology. Unanue served as head of the Department of Pathology and Immunology for 21 years, stepping down last summer.

Scientists have linked a protein to regulation of the body’s use of the sugar glucose. In the process, they illustrated the protein’s potential as a target for new drugs to treat diabetes and obesity.

Sir Michael Atiyah, one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century, will be at Washington University on Friday, May 11, to deliver a talk on “Beauty and Truth in Mathematics.” The lecture, appropriate for a general audience, will be held at 5 p.m. in Crow Hall Room 201, and is free and open to the public.

Photo by Joe AngelesDavid Kloeckener, a Cherokee from St. Louis, and Chris Knoxsah of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation in Kansas, join the first grand entrance of the 17th annual Pow Wow at the Athletic Complex April 14. The Pow Wow, sponsored by the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies, various University departments and groups from around St. Louis, was a festival of dancing, singing, drumming, arts, crafts and food.

Seventy-five presentations — more than double the number from last semester — make up the spring 2007 Undergraduate Research Symposium, billed as the “biggest and best yet,” April 28 in the Athletic Complex.