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Photo by Mary ButkusDarrell Butler, MBA ’92, gets into the swing of things at the City Museum Saturday, Oct. 7, at the annual Olin Business School reunion.

Photo by Mary ButkusHimadri B. Pakrasi, Ph.D., receives a medal from Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton signifying his appointment as the George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences Oct. 2 in a ceremony at Holmes Lounge.

Jill Carnaghi, Ph.D., assistant vice chancellor for students and director of Campus Life, was presented with the 2007 Richard Caple Professional Award from the Missouri College Personnel Association at an awards ceremony Sept. 24.

Wanda Lee Terry, died Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2007, in St. Louis. She was 69.

Scientists working to identify the microorganisms that make us sick have discovered a new virus potentially linked to unexplained respiratory infections.

Washington University men’s basketball team has earned a No. 1 ranking in the 2007-08 Sporting News Division III preseason poll.

The Washington University Board of Trustees met Friday, Oct. 5, and issued a tribute to Trustee J. Stephen Fossett, for whom a search continues following the disappearance of his plane over Nevada. They also heard a number of reports, among them one from Raymond E. Arvidson, Ph.D., the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and chair of the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences. Arvidson reviewed the research of his department in a talk titled “Geology, Habitability, and Life on Mars.”

Husband-and-wife performers Sanjay Shantaram and Shama Sanjay will teach an introductory master class in the Bharata Natyam style of dance at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14, in the Annelise Mertz Dance Studio in the Mallinckrodt Student Center.

Theorist Eric Santner, visiting Hurst professor in the Department of English in Arts & Sciences, will speak on “The People’s Two Bodies: Modernity and the Endgames of Sovereignty” at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11.

Go to BearSports The No. 8 volleyball team swept four matches at the Augustana Invitational Oct. 5-6 in Rock Island, Ill., winning the tournament title. The Bears finished 3-0 in tournament pool play, defeating Grinnell College and Knox College Oct. 5 and Elmhurst College Oct. 6. The team’s undefeated record led to a berth in […]