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Regarded as one of the nation’s leading African historians, Jean Allman, PhD, shares her passion for the continent through her teaching, mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students, prolific writing and worldwide scholarly presentations, and editorship of a book series that ensures other scholars’ writings about African history are published.

At recent Board of Trustees meetings, the following faculty members were appointed with tenure, promoted with tenure or granted tenure.

The George Warren Brown School of Social Work is celebrating National Public Health Week April 5-8 with a series of events that is open to the university community.

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton dons a Metro bus costume and participates with students in a March 31 walking dance improvisation outside the Danforth University Center to raise awareness for Proposition A and mass transit. Proposition A, on next Tuesday’s April 6 ballot in St. Louis County, is a one-half cent sales tax increase to support the operation and expansion of the Metro bus and rail system.

Seeing inside: This whole-body MRI scanner, designed for clinical and research applications, offers high-resolution imaging of large anatomical areas and eliminates the need for patient repositioning during a scan. Members of the research team include Robert T. Naismith, MD, Anne H. Cross, MD, Sheng-Kwei (Victor) Song, PhD, and Robyn S. Klein, MD, PhD. More than […]

Students, faculty, staff and members of the St. Louis community are invited to the third annual “Faces of Hope,” a celebration of civic engagement and community service. The event, hosted by the Gephardt Institute for Public Service, will be held from 4-6 p.m., Thursday, April 8, in the Whitaker Hall atrium and auditorium.

Fox News political analyst Juan Williams will present “The Capacity of America to Address Its Most Pressing Domestic Issues” for the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government and Public Policy’s annual dinner at 8 p.m. Monday, April 4, in the main dining room of the Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, PhD, has been selected to give the 2010 Commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. The university’s 149th Commencement will begin at 8:30 a.m. May 21 in Brookings Quadrangle on the Danforth Campus.

Bernard F. Schutz, PhD, director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany, will deliver the McDonnell Distinguished Lecture Wednesday, April 7. Schutz will give a talk titled “Gravitational Waves: Listening to the True Music of the Spheres” at 7 p.m.

Students build a replica of the Gateway Arch on the South 40 Swamp in the Wash U Build Extravanganza March 27. Ten teams of WUSTL undergraduates participated in the team-building exercise sponsored by the campus chapter of Habitat for Humanity.