WUSTL students give back during Service First
The 11th annual Service First will be held Saturday, Sept. 5, at 12 St. Louis area schools. Approximately 90 students will head to each school, helping paint indoor and outdoor murals and activities and maps on the playground and creating bulletin boards and preparing classrooms.
A strong moral compass
Photo by Mary ButkusJudge David Coar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois addresses students after the School of Law’s annual Matriculation Ceremony last month in the Crowder Courtyard of Anheuser-Busch Hall.
Three generations
Photo by Joe AngelesChancellor Mark S. Wrighton visits in his office Aug. 21 with Yoshio “Matt” Matsumoto (second from left), Yoshio’s son Joseph and his grandson, Andrew, a current freshman. Yoshio was sponsored by the University to leave a Japanese internment camp in the 1940s to attend classes here and had not been back to St. Louis since earning his degree in 1944.
Of note
Jan Amend, Ph.D.,
Dennis L. Barbour, Ph.D.,
Yehuda Ben-Shahar, Ph.D. and more…
WUSTL hosts conference blending art, architecture in November
World-renowned artist and computer scientist John Maeda will serve as opening speaker for “Economies: Art + Architecture,” the first joint conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and the National Council of Art Administrators.
New Web site launches to assist WUSTL families
The new WUSTL Family Network Web site — WUSTLfamily.net — provides an online forum where members of the WUSTL community can exchange information about parenting, events and the St. Louis area.
Dodge, professor emeritus of pediatrics and of neurology, 86
Philip R. Dodge, M.D., one of the founders of pediatric neurology and head of the Department of Pediatrics for 21 years, died Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009, of heart failure at Barnes-Jewish Extended Care in St. Louis. He was 86.
Model professor
Photo by David KilperCindy Grimm, Ph.D., associate professor, is director of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering’s Media and Machines Laboratory. Projects range from computer graphics to computer vision to machine learning, which includes robotics.
Skandalaris Center welcomes renewed funding for entrepreneurial contest
The YouthBridge Community Foundation has renewed its partnership with the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies to fund the annual Social Entrepreneur and Innovation Competition (SEIC) with an initial $450,000 pledge over the next three years. YouthBridge has been a major sponsor of the competition for nonprofit, community-based ventures since its inception in 2005. The newly […]
Trustees grant faculty promotions, tenure
At recent Board of Trustees meetings, the following faculty members were appointed with tenure, promoted with tenure or granted tenure effective July 1, 2009, unless otherwise noted. Appointment with tenure Robert Richard Kuehn, J.D., as professor of law William J. Maxwell, Ph.D., as associate professor of English in Arts & Sciences John Wiggs Patty, Ph.D., […]
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