Author: Susan Killenberg McGinn

The University is one of 14 locations being considered; this is the fourth consecutive time the University has been listed as a potential site.

The chimpanzees’ behavior when first coming in contact with the researchers was a telltale sign of lack of human exposure — the chimpanzees didn’t run and hide.

From a former U.S. secretary of state to a former head of a university, the six notable people selected to receive honorary degrees from Washington University in St. Louis at its 142nd Commencement all stand out in their respective fields. During the ceremony, which begins at 8:30 a.m. May 16 in Brookings Quadrangle, the university will also bestow academic degrees on more than 2,300 students. Madeleine K. Albright, Ph.D., former U.S. secretary of state, will deliver the Commencement address and receive an honorary doctor of humanities degree.

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They are: Madeleine K. Albright, Herman N. Eisen, Douglass C. North, Ozzie Smith, William P. Stiritz and Blanche M. Touhill.

The former U.S. secretary of state will speak at the University’s 142nd Commencement May 16 and will also receive an honorary doctor of humanities degree.

A Congo field study of chimps by doctoral candidate Crickette Sanz was listed as No. 24 in recent rankings in Discover magazine.

Jonathan Hron and Daniel Perrault have won the Spector Prize; Laura Ernst and Omar Young will share the Stalker Prize.

David Blasingame, Michael Isikoff, Harry Jonas, Constance Kling Levy, Jerome Loeb and Sally Silvers will be honored May 21.

They are given to personnel who have contributed significantly to the teaching, advising, counseling and research efforts.