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Photo by Kevin Lowder Lonia Friedlander (left) visits with her former chemistry teacher, Terry Sappenfield (center), and Harvey R. Fields, Ph.D., assistant director of academic programs at WUSTL’s Cornerstone: The Center for Advanced Learning. Sappenfield, a faculty member at Firestone High School in Akron, Ohio, came to campus to accept the Cornerstone Outstanding Teacher Award.

The Office of Student Activities is sponsoring a naming contest for the five dining venues to be located on the main level of the Danforth University Center, scheduled to open for the fall 2008 semester.

Photo by Whitney CurtisAlumna Shirley Bowden Brown (right) is presented with flowers from Antoinette Stallings, an Eskridge High School senior and participant in WUSTL’s Wellston Summer School program. An educational consultant, Brown is one of seven recipients of the 2008 Gerry and Bob Virgil Ethic of Service Award, presented annually to a select group of WUSTL community members who exemplify a character of service and giving to the St. Louis region.

The Office of Student Activities is sponsoring a naming contest for the five dining venues to be located on the main level of the Danforth University Center, scheduled to open for the fall 2008 semester. Both undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents of current students and friends of the University are eligible to participate.

The Office of Student Activities is sponsoring a naming contest for the five dining venues to be located on the main level of the Danforth University Center, scheduled to open for the fall 2008 semester. Both undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents of current students and friends of the University are eligible to participate.

Craig K. Reiss, M.D., has been named the Sam and Marilyn Fox Distinguished Professor in Medicine. Reiss, a cardiologist, directs the Washington University Cardiology Consultants and the Heart Care Institute at Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital. Reiss The professorship is the second named for Sam and Marilyn Fox, both prominent civic leaders in the St. Louis […]

Three doctoral students were inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at the annual Bouchet Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education March 29 at Yale University. The three 2008 Bouchet Fellows are Keona Ervin from the Department of History in Arts & Sciences, Henrika McCoy from the George Warren Brown School of Social […]

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National DNA Day is April 25. The day celebrates a most remarkable molecule, one that holds the instructions for life: DNA. DNA Day was created in 2003 to commemorate the completion of the Human Genome Project and the 50th anniversary of James Watson’s and Francis Crick’s discovery of DNA’s double helical structure. Washington University played a key role in the Human Genome Project, an international effort to assemble in order the 3 billion letters that make up the genetic code.

Washington University’s Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences (DBBS) celebrated two milestones May 1-2: its 35th anniversary and the graduation of its 1,000th student. The Division spans both the University’s Danforth and Medical campuses to provide Ph.D. training programs in biology and the biomedical sciences. Established in 1973, the Division has become the national model for graduate education in biology and biomedical sciences because of its collaborative, interdisciplinary approach.