Show your WashU pride at PrideFest 2015
Washington University in St. Louis faculty, staff,
students and alumni are invited to march in this year’s St. Louis
PrideFest Parade on Sunday, June 28.
Four students receive State Department Critical Language Scholarship
Four students in Arts & Sciences, one of whom also earned a degree from Olin Business School, have received the U.S. State Department’s Critical Language Scholarship for summer 2015.
WashU computer scientists part of $8M data research grant
Two computer scientists from Washington University in St. Louis, Robert Pless and Roman Garnett, are part of a research team that will use big data to accelerate breeding and the commercial release of sorghum crops that can be used as a renewable energy source.
Duncan entrance to SLCH garage to reopen June 22, Newstead entrance to close for 6 weeks
The St. Louis Children’s Hospital (SLCH) staff garage entrance and exit along Duncan Avenue is scheduled to reopen June 22, and the garage entrance and exit along Newstead Avenue is scheduled to close. The Newstead entrance will be reconfigured as part of a new road to provide additional access to the parking garages on Duncan and is expected to remain closed for six weeks. Newstead Avenue, however, will remain open.
Department of Music’s Gill named 2015 American Council of Learned Societies fellow
Denise Elif Gill, PhD, assistant professor of ethnomusicology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, was named a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Gill will finish her book titled “Melancholic Modalities: Affect and Contemporary Turkish Classical Musicians.”
Honors roll in for students in classics
The honors are piling up for students in the Department of Classics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
Maffly-Kipp elected president of Mormon History Association
Laurie Maffly-Kipp, PhD, the Archer Alexander Distinguished Professor in the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis, was recently elected president of the the Mormon History Association.
Obituary: Raymond Kline, professor emeritus of electrical engineering
Raymond Kline, PhD, professor emeritus of electrical engineering, died May 31, 2015. He began his career ar Washington University in 1962.
Traffic delays expected on eastbound Forest Park Avenue
Contractors are to begin pouring concrete June 11 on the metal decking of the new Barnes-Jewish Hospital tower. The work may lead to some intermittent delays for the next several months on eastbound Forest Park Avenue east of Kingshighway Boulevard.
Mecham, Geraghty honored by Marfan Foundation
School of Medicine faculty members Robert P. Mecham, PhD, and Patrick J. Geraghty, MD, were honored earlier this spring by the Marfan Foundation.
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