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Steven P. Hoffner has accepted the position of assistant vice chancellor for operations, announced Henry S. Webber, executive vice chancellor for administration. Hoffner will be responsible for University Police, Parking & Transportation Services, Food Services, Whittemore House and summer conference operations.

Six distinguished individuals, including a pioneer of women in medicine and a multimedia entrepreneur, will receive honorary degrees May 16 during the University’s 147th Commencement ceremony. The University also will bestow academic degrees on more than 2,500 students during the ceremony, which begins at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle.

About 40 percent of African-Americans have a genetic variant that can protect them after heart failure and prolong their lives.

School of Medicine researchers genes play a larger role than environment if girls advance to problem drinking and alcohol dependence.

Photo by Tim ParkerFaculty and staff from The Genome Center went to McKinley Classical Junior Academy April 24 to talk to students about National DNA Day, which was April 25.

Recent economic events have shaken the confidence of many Americans with respect to their ability to achieve the “American dream.” “With rising numbers of home foreclosures, job cuts, and loss of savings, more Americans are encountering severe periods of economic risk and insecurity in their lives,” says Mark R. Rank, Ph.D., poverty expert and professor of social work at Washington University in St. Louis.

Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.One hundred seventy students from all five WUSTL undergraduate schools presented their research through dance, exhibits and oral presentations at the Undergraduate Research Symposium held April 28 at the Saint Louis Art Museum.

Seven individuals from the faculty and staff of Arts & Sciences were honored at the annual ArtSci Council Faculty Awards Recognition Ceremony April 15 in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge.

DNA sequencing has led scientists to map the human genome and could take them to huge advancements in medicine — possibly diagnosing and preventing disease. But Alex Heerman just wanted to create some deadly fruit. Heerman and his fellow McKinley Middle School sixth-graders learned how to extract DNA from strawberries during a demonstration by Latricia Wallace, outreach coordinator for the Genome Center at Washington University.

A memorial service for adventurer Steve Fossett, a member of Washington University’s Board of Trustees and a 1968 MBA graduate of the university’s Olin Business School, will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday, May 1, in Graham Chapel.