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Evan D. Kharasch, MD, PhD, the Russell D. and Mary B. Shelden Professor of Anesthesiology and professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, has been appointed vice chancellor for research at Washington University in St. Louis, effective April 5. He had served as interim vice chancellor since July 2009. As the chief officer responsible for the university’s research mission, he will oversee an enterprise that generates more than $500 million annually for sponsored research from a wide array of funding sources.

Of note Jeffrey Bradley, MD, the S. Lee Kling Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, was named the lung cancer committee chair for the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group. As chair, Bradley will serve on the RTOG Research Strategy Committee and work closely with investigators from the group’s scientific core committees to develop and report on protocols […]

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.

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.

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 […]

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.

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.