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The Silvio Conte Center for Neuroscience Research has a new director. Deanna M. Barch, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, of psychiatry and of radiology, takes over leadership of the center from John G. Csernansky, M.D., the former Gregory B. Couch Professor of Psychiatry, who has become the chairman of psychiatry at […]

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Bunge’s strong relationship with the Olin Business School was cemented on March 13 with a ceremony dedicating the new Bunge Classroom in the Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center. The partnership began several years ago, when Olin created customized leadership programs for Bunge executives. The programs have been successful for Bunge, and to show its support for the school’s innovative curriculum, it recently provided Olin with a gift of $300,000 for the Knight Center and to establish an endowed scholarship fund.

The Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work hosted the 18th annual Pow Wow on April 5 at the Washington University Athletic Center.

New York architect Nikole Renee Bouchard has won Washington University’s 2008 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design Competition. The biennial competition, sponsored by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design, is open to young architects from around the world and carries a $30,000 first place award to support study and research abroad — the largest such award in the United States.

Photo by David KilperAs a scholar of Italian literature, culture and women’s issues, Rebecca Messbarger never expected her research would involve the dissection of human cadavers at the School of Medicine.

Ramki Kalyanaraman, Ph.D., Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D., Michael Brent, Ph.D., Lynette Cegelski, Ph.D., Eric Duncavage, M.D., and more…

The Assembly Series closes its 2007-08 seasons with lectures on Tuesday, April 15, from Alvin Poussaint, M.D., speaking on race relations, tolerance and diversity; and on Wednesday, April 16, from Helen Fisher, Ph.D., speaking on the biology of romantic love.

The 2008 NCAA Division III National Champion basketball team will be recognized at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 16, at the Field House. Festivities will include unveiling the championship banner, a presentation of the championship trophy and comments from the team. Free pizza, championship posters and 2008 NCAA Championship T-shirts will be available while supplies last.

Joseph Levitt, M.D., professor of clinical medicine, died Sunday, March 30. He was 86.