Author: Kelly Wiese Niemeyer

Philip W. Majerus, MD, a renowned hematologist and professor emeritus of medicine at the School of Medicine, died at his home in St. Louis June 8 after a long illness. He was 79.

Joseph R. Williamson, MD, a distinguished diabetes researcher and former professor of pathology at the School of Medicine, died June 9, 2016, in St. Louis after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 84.

Caitlin Kelleher, the Hugo F. & Ina Champ Urbauer Career Development Associate Professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, focuses on how programming environments can support kids ages 10-17 to most effectively learn computer programming to help them develop problem-solving skills, express creativity and understand its relevance to nearly everything.

Himadri Pakrasi, the Myron and Sonya Glassberg/Albert and Blanche Greensfelder Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences and director of the International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability, presented the lead address at the “Sustainable and Affordable Energy Challenge for the World” symposium at Columbia University.

Question: As the world mourns the death of Muhammad Ali, we ask: When did Ali give an address in Graham Chapel?

Xuan Cindy Li, a student majoring in biochemistry and in women, gender and sexuality studies, both in Arts & Sciences, was selected as a 2016 intern for the Civil Liberties & Public Policy program at Hampshire College’s summer program, the Reproductive Rights Activist Service Corps.

The Campus Kitchen at Washington University seeks volunteers during the summer to help prepare meals for the hungry. Cooking shifts are 6-8 p.m. on Tuesdays at the First Community Church on Wydown Boulevard.

Farshid Guilak, PhD, a professor of orthopaedic surgery at Washington University School of Medicine and director of research at Shriners Hospitals for Children-St. Louis, has received the Basic Science Research Award from the Osteoarthritis Research Society International.

More than 50 graduate students had the opportunity to present their research this spring to a panel of judges and volunteers at the annual Graduate Research Symposium.

The International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES) at Washington University in St. Louis has named the funding recipients from its 2016 call for proposals. I-CARES supports researchers who focus on renewable energy, climate change and sustainability.