Author: Neil Schoenherr

Faculty members are being sought to join the Faculty Associates Program, sponsored by the Office of Residential Life. The program is designed to provide opportunities for faculty-student interaction outside the classroom setting. Associates are faculty members who agree to work with resident advisers (RAs) and a floor of about 50 first-year students in a residential […]

She will address “Bad Luck and Sadness Genes in Depression” at 9 a.m. April 6.

The title of her talk is “Bad Luck and Sadness Genes in Depression”; it begins at 9 a.m. April 6 in Clopton Auditorium.

The Bear Necessities store in Wohl Student Center is having a sale of 25 percent to 75 percent off on select WUSTL apparel, including T-shirts, sweatshirts, hats and pants. The sale will continue while supplies last. Bear Necessities is operated by The Women’s Society of Washington University. For more information, call 935-5071.

Photo by Kevin LowderUniversity students and administrators recently toured the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.

The Washington University School of Medicine and the George Warren Brown School of Social Work are both ranked second in the nation, according to new graduate and professional rankings released April 2 by U.S. News & World Report magazine. The School of Medicine was tied for second in 2003 and has placed in the top 10 every year since the annual rankings began in 1987. It has ranked first in student selectivity — a measurement of student quality based on Medical College Admission Test scores, undergraduate grade-point average and the proportion of applicants selected — every year since 1998.

He was “not only a major influence on Washington University’s academic strengths, he was also a national leader in science and research,” Chancellor Wrighton says.

Photo by David Kilper / WUSTL PhotoRecent Washington University graduate Glenn K. Davis reads to children at Ford Elementary School in St. Louis.As President Bush’s struggling No Child Left Behind Act heats up as a presidential campaign issue, the achievement gap in American schools continues to widen. Can we ever hope to close the racial, ethnic and economic gaps in schools? An education researcher at Washington University in St. Louis thinks it is possible — we just need to think of the achievement gap in different terms.

David Hadas, Ph.D., professor of English in Arts & Sciences, died March 3, 2004 at his home in St. Louis of complications from cancer. He was 73. Hadas, who had taught at the University since 1964, will be most remembered for his “The Bible as Literature” class, which was very popular with students.

FlinnOn Feb. 27, the John Jay School of Criminal Law will release its report on the abuse of minors by priests from 1950 to 2002. Those who have seen it, claim the report will demonstrate that roughly 4,500 priests abused 11,000 minors during that time and that the abuse took place in 70 out of 90 dioceses in America. Frank K. Flinn, Ph.D., professor of religious studies at Washington University in St. Louis and an expert on the Catholicism, claims that the sex-abuse scandal is “far-and-away the most serious crisis to confront the American Catholic Church in its entire history.”