Author: Neil Schoenherr

WUSTL’s Office of Human Resources cordially invites faculty and staff to Financial Education Seminars conducted by TIAA-CREF and Vanguard consultants. The seminars will last about 90 minutes and will feature a discussion of basic investment choices and a review of some simple strategies and concepts to make sound investment decisions. Topics will include: • assessing […]

Photo by Robert BostonKelly Mushill, a second-year doctoral student in the Program in Physical Therapy; Suzanne Cornbleet, DPT, assistant professor of physical therapy and of orthopaedic surgery; and Marie Harper, a second-year doctoral student in the Program in Physical Therapy, evaluate Maplewood-Richmond Heights Elementary School fourth-grader Zackery Kottkamp’s posture and flexibility.

As the Record went to press, we learned of the passing of Merle Kling, Ph.D., former provost, executive vice chancellor, dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences and professor of political science, on April 8 from esophageal cancer. He was 89.

Theatre, dance, carnival rides, dog adoptions, poetry and a capella music are just some of the attractions to be featured at Thurtene Carnival, scheduled 11 a.m.-8 p.m. April 12-13 on the Danforth Campus.

Beginning April 14, applications will be accepted for volunteer positions for the 2008 vice presidential debate, to be held at Washington University on Oct. 2. All full- and part-time WUSTL students, postdoctoral appointees, faculty and staff who will be on campus for the fall 2008 semester are eligible to apply.

Merle Kling, Ph.D., former provost, executive vice chancellor, dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences and professor of political science at Washington University in St. Louis, died April 8 of esophageal cancer in St. Louis. He was 89.

Theatre, dance, carnival rides, dog adoptions, poetry and a capella music are just some of the attractions to be featured at Thurtene Carnival, scheduled 11 a.m.-8 p.m. April 12-13 on the Washington University Danforth Campus.

MaciasExecutive Vice Chancellor Edward S. Macias, Ph.D., dean of Arts & Sciences and the Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences, has been named provost, effective Jan. 1, 2009, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced.

The Freshman Reading Program steering committee has announced that the Class of 2012 will be reading and studying “Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change” by Elizabeth Kolbert. Over the summer, incoming freshmen will receive copies of the book along with a reader’s guide and are expected to have completed the book […]

An international group of researchers, led by Fiona Marshall, Ph.D., professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has found evidence for the earliest transport use of the donkey and the early phases of donkey domestication, suggesting the process of domestication may have been slower and less linear than previously thought.