Author: Kelly Wiese Niemeyer

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall will be flown at half-staff until sunset Dec. 7 in remembrance of those who died in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

Arthur DeCosta Loewy, professor of anatomy and of neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died Dec. 2, 2017, of complications related to inflammatory bowel disease and other health issues. He was 74.

The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) has named Eugene M. Oltz the next editor-in-chief of The Journal of Immunology. Oltz is professor and the vice chair for faculty development in the Department of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Lingyu Zhou, a Washington University in St. Louis School of Law alumna, has been awarded a highly selective 2019 Schwarzman Scholarship for graduate study at Tsinghua University in Beijing. A student and another alum were semifinalists.

John A. (Jack) Pierce, MD, emeritus professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, died Nov. 24 in St. Louis following a long battle with cancer. Pierce came to the university in 1967 as the first director of the Department of Medicine’s Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.

Conrad Chris Weihl, MD, PhD, has received the 2017 Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholar Award in Basic Science, the most prestigious honor awarded by the American Neurological Association.

Question: The McDonnell International Scholars Academy has 33 partner universities around the world. Which country has at least two universities in the academy?

The university’s Police and Parking Services departments, in partnership with Hartmann’s Towing, once again will sponsor free vehicle inspections for students, faculty and staff from noon-2:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, in the lower level of Millbrook Garage.

John S. Rigden, a longtime adjunct professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, died Nov. 24 in St. Louis. He was 83.

Julie Margenthaler, MD, professor of surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and a breast surgeon at Siteman Cancer Center, has been named secretary-treasurer of the American Society of Breast Surgeons.