Author: Kelly Wiese Niemeyer

Washington University in St. Louis Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and his wife, Risa Zwerling Wrighton, will receive the inaugural “Spirit of Provident Award” early next year from the nonprofit agency Provident, which offers counseling, crisis intervention and community outreach.

Todd Decker, PhD, chair of music in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, spoke this month about musical film star Fred Astaire at a study day titled “Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: A London Celebration” at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

James V. Wertsch, PhD, founding director of one of the most successful and innovative global scholarship programs in the world, has been named the inaugural David R. Francis Distinguished Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Wertsch is vice chancellor for international affairs and director of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy.

Larry J. Shapiro, MD, executive vice chancellor of medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, will step down in December after 12 years at the helm. He reflects on his tenure here and on the dedicated, inspiring students, faculty and staff he has worked with.

Hillary A. Sale, JD, the Walter D. Coles Professor of Law and professor of management at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, recently attended a conference of securities and corporate governance experts in Vienna, Austria, gathered to comment on a model statute for corporate law throughout the European Union.

Thirty-six staff members in the Facilities Management Department at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis recently earned the Sustainable Facility Professional credential from the International Facility Management Association.

Several Washington University in St. Louis faculty and staff members have received collaborative awards through The Divided City, an urban humanities initiative organized by the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design.

The university will pause Friday, Sept. 11, to remember the lives lost in the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The university and U.S. flags will be lowered to half-staff, and the chimes in Graham Chapel will toll at 9:28 a.m., the time the World Trade Center’s North Tower collapsed.

It’s time to get up and get moving. Washington University in St. Louis faculty, staff members, clinical fellows and postdoctoral appointees can sign up to participate in the next wellness challenge, WashU Moves. The program launches Sept. 2 and runs through Dec. 10, and each person’s goal is to take 10,000 steps, or roughly 5 miles, each day.

The Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital Pulmonary Hypertension Center, under the direction of Murali Chakinala, MD, associate professor of medicine, has received accreditation from the Pulmonary Hypertension Association as a Center for Comprehensive Care, the association’s highest level achievable.