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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.

The 1983-84 school year marked the 10th anniversary of Edison Theatre. To mark the event, the Washington University Dance Theatre performed the satire Façade (below), which added a third voice to the marriage of music by Sir William Walton and the abstract poetry of Dame Edith Sitwell. The 19 dances, created by Annelise Mertz, professor […]

KhindukaFamily Support Network (FSN), a nonprofit agency dedicated to strengthening families through the prevention of child abuse and neglect has chosen Shanti Khinduka, Ph.D., dean and the George Warren Brown School Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, as their 2004 Guardian Angel award recipient. The award will be presented at the “Every Child Needs a Hero” Gala at the Missouri Athletic Club April 17.

Washington University senior Leon Barrett will present a guitar recital at 4 p.m. Saturday, March 27, in the university’s Karl Umrath Hall Lounge.

“Our findings need to be explored further … but this preliminary evidence is very encouraging,” principal investigator Nancy Baenziger says. Click here for more medical articles

PakeGeorge E. Pake, Ph.D., recipient of the National Medal of Science, professor of physics at Washington University in St. Louis, Washington University provost from 1962-1970, and emeritus trustee, died of heart failure Thursday, March 4, 2004, in Tucson, Ariz. He was 79.

Sam and Marilyn Fox, who have donated time and money to a wide range of community and civic groups that touch the lives of many St. Louisans, are being recognized for their extraordinary generosity and leadership with the 2004 Jane and Whitney Harris Saint Louis Community Service Award.

LawlorEdward F. Lawlor, Ph.D., dean of the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago, will become dean of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work (GWB) on July 1, 2004, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. Lawlor will succeed Shanti K. Khinduka, Ph.D., who last year announced his intention to retire as dean on June 30, 2004.

When the University Training School for Nurses opened in 1907-08, the admission requirements included “a good common school education, good moral character and a sound physique… .” No tuition was charged for the three-year program, and students received free board and lodging. During World War I, some nurses from the school joined the University’s Base […]

Schedule of events and participant biographies for the Campus Ecology Workshops, part of The Sustainable University Campus, a national colloquium on campus environmental design organized by the School of Architecture and the U.S. Green Buildings Council—St. Louis Chapter March 28 and 30.