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Photo by Nan RochbergCarl Bender, Ph.D. (left), the Wilfred R. and Ann Lee Konneker Distinguished Professor of Physics in Arts & Sciences, and his son, Michael A. Bender, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, share a light moment during the 2009 Quantum Mechanics in the Complex Domain conference, held at WUSTL March 27 and 28.

Simone York, head reserve division and library assistant from 1952-1974, died April 6, 2009, in Chaumont, France, after a brief illness. She was 91.

Alexandre Carter, M.D., Ph.D., Kelley Greenman, and Joshua York

Photo by Whitney CurtisVolunteers from the Sam Fox School and the City of Pagedale — with support from St. Louis nonprofit organization Beyond Housing — spent the day working with residents of the 6500 block of Whitney Avenue to add bushes, fruit trees, flowerbeds and other individualized landscaping.

A choreographer, bank president, investment banker and the president of the United States’ largest brewer were among the honorees at the Olin Business School’s 2009 Distinguished Alumni Awards April 22 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Clayton. More than 500 alumni, faculty and friends attended the ceremony, where winners of the second annual Olin Award and Dean’s Medal were also named.

Photo by Ray Marklin(From left) Shaun Yockelson, Natalie Villafranco, Brandon Holmes, Tim Laumann and Eric Kim, all first-year students in the School of Medicine, play at the end of the class show May 1 in Moore Auditorium.

Courtesy PhotoThe Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will present its annual MFA Thesis Exhibition in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum beginning Friday, May 8. The exhibition features thesis projects by 27 master of fine arts candidates in the Graduate School of Art.

Photo by Robert BostonThe love Katie Plax, M.D., has for medicine and advocacy combined when she became medical director of the SPOT (Supporting Positive Opportunities for and with Teens).

The School of Law’s Center for Research on Innovation & Entrepreneurship has been renamed the Center on Law, Innovation & Economic Growth.

The No. 1-ranked and defending national champion men’s tennis team will host the Central Regional of the 2009 NCAA Division III Championship Friday, May 8, through Sunday, May 10, at the Tao Tennis Center. The Bears received an opening-round bye and will face the winner of No. 4 seed Carthage College and No. 5 seed […]