Author: Susan Killenberg McGinn

Two doctoral students were inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at the annual Bouchet Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education March 28 at Yale University. Magassa The 2009 Bouchet Fellows are N’Goundo Magassa, a doctoral student in the Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program in the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, […]

William (Will) G. Donnelly, son of Terrence and Ruth Donnelly of St. Louis, Mo. (63139), recently was named the inaugural recipient of the Boeing/FIRST Scholarship at Washington University. A senior at Gateway Institute of Technology in St. Louis, Donnelly will enter the university’s School of Engineering & Applied Science as a freshman when the fall semester begins in August 2009.

P. James E. Peebles, Ph.D., one of the world’s foremost theoretical cosmologists who played a central role in understanding the evolution and structure of the universe, will deliver two talks April 15 and 16 as part of the McDonnell Distinguished Lecture Series, sponsored by the University’s McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences.

PeeblesP. James E. Peebles, Ph.D., one of the world’s foremost theoretical cosmologists who played a central role in understanding the evolution and structure of the universe, will deliver two talks April 15-16 as part of the McDonnell Distinguished Lecture Series, sponsored by Washington University’s McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences.

Wendy Kopp, founder and chief executive officer of Teach For America, has been selected to give the 2009 Commencement address, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. The University’s 148th Commencement will begin at 8:30 a.m. May 15.

KoppWendy Kopp, founder and chief executive officer of Teach For America — the national corps of outstanding college graduates who commit to teach for at least two years in some of the country’s highest-need schools — has been selected to give the 2009 Commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. The university’s 148th Commencement will begin at 8:30 a.m. May 15 in Brookings Quadrangle on the Danforth Campus.

Photo by David KilperMary Jo Bang worked as an anti-Vietnam War organizer, a physician assistant and as a commercial photographer, but what she really wanted to do was to be a writer. Today she is a critically acclaimed poet and well-respected professor of English.

Phyllis C. Rogier, accounting/payroll clerk in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, died Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009, of a heart attack at her home in St. Louis. She was 55.

WUSTL astrophysicists have received a five-year, $3,225,740 grant from NASA to design and build Super-TIGER — a Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder — to collect rare atomic particles called galactic cosmic rays. Super-TIGER’s first flight is planned for December 2012.

Courtesy photoW. Robert Binns and TIGER prelaunch in AntarcticaAstrophysicists at Washington University in St. Louis have received a five-year, $3,225,740 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to design and build Super-TIGER — a Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder — and then fly it aboard a high-altitude balloon over Antarctica to collect rare atomic particles called galactic cosmic rays. Super-TIGER’s first flight in search of the origin of cosmic rays is planned for December 2012.