Founders Day honors distinguished alumni
Six outstanding alumni will be honored for their service to and support of their alma mater at the University’s Founders Day celebration scheduled for Nov. 3 at America’s Center. Selected by the Alumni Board of Governors, the Distinguished Alumni Award recipients are: Nathan O. Hatch, president of Wake Forest University; Charlotte D. Jacobs, oncologist and professor of medicine at Stanford University; Steven F. Leer, chairman and chief executive officer of Arch Coal, Inc.; William B. Pollard III, a partner in Kornstein Veisz Wexler & Pollard, LLP law firm; Philip D. Shelton, former president and executive director of the Law School Admission Council; and J. J. Stupp, chief financial officer of Exegy Inc., a technology licensing company.
Existing drugs may be useful in treating brain tumors
School of Medicine research has opened the possibility that physicians may be able to use established drugs to treat brain tumors.
Stenson named Costrini Professor
William F. Stenson, M.D., has been named the Dr. Nicholas V. Costrini Professor of Gastroenterology & Inflammatory Bowel Disease at the School of Medicine.
Shaw named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Andrey Shaw, M.D., the Emil R. Unanue Professor of Immunobiology, has been named an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
West end of Snow Way garage closed Oct. 27
The west end of the lower level of Snow Way parking garage on the Danforth Campus will be closed from 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 27.
Changing the way undergraduates are taught
Kenneth J. Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science and engineering in the School of Engineering, is taking a grant from the National Science Foundation and helping his department transform the way undergraduates are taught.
American Indian Repertory Theatre’s “Weaving the Rain,” Nov. 10 and 11
In its first performance in St. Louis, the American Indian Repertory Theatre (AIRT) will present “Weaving the Rain,” an award winning play by Dianne Yeahquo Reyner. The play is being hosted by Washington University’s Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies.
New school in Andhra Pradesh provides teaching and research opportunities
Six WUSTL undergraduate students spent the past summer in the village of Andhra Pradesh, India, teaching English to high school students and conducting research projects. The trip, led by Glenn Stone, Ph.D., professor of anthropology and of environmental studies, both in Arts & Sciences, was the first for a WUSTL group. Stone has spent years […]
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Tuesday, Oct. 23
• Public Interest Law and Policy Speakers Series — “The Military Readiness Enhancement Act: Replacing the Military’s Gay Ban with a Policy of Non-Discrimination”
Thursday, Oct. 25
• History Colloquium — “Why Were the Templars Arrested in 1307?”
• The Writing Program’s fall Reading Series — poet and author Susan Wheeler
Thursday, Nov. 1
• Center for the Study of Ethics & Human Values Panel Discussion — “The Certain Uncertainties of Truth”
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