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University earth and planetary scientists are paving the way for a smooth Mars landing for the Phoenix mission — scheduled to launch in August — by making sure the set-down literally is not a rocky one.

The John M. Olin School of Business has received a major gift from the Bauer Foundation to establish the George and Carol Bauer Professorship in Organizational Ethics and Governance.

Peter Elsbeck, Cristina Greavu and Eric Rang, all graduate students in architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, won an international competition to create a sculptural façade for El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe in New Mexico.

Jeanette Lyles Caliguri, a licensed practical nurse at the School of Medicine from 1971-73, died Monday, June 18, 2007, at Des Peres Hospital. She was 75.

Photo by David Kilper(From left) Seventh-grader Sebastian Cooper of Jury Elementary School, eighth-grader David Wallas of Pattonville Heights Middle School, Bernard Harris, M.D., NASA astronaut, and seventh-grader David Tate of Fairview Elementary School build a raft using just two squares of aluminum foil and four drinking straws. Forty-eight middle-school students from various area schools were chosen to attend a two-week residential ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp, held on campus June 16-27.

School of Medicine staff were honored for their years of service at two June 4 ceremonies.

Matthew Malten’s appointment marks the first time that Washington University has given a person the responsibility for campus sustainability.

Samuel Isaac Weissman, Ph.D., professor emeritus of chemistry in Arts & Sciences who worked on the Manhattan Project, died Tuesday, June 12, 2007, at 2 McKnight Place. He was 94.

Patricia Olynyk has been named director of the Graduate School of Art, part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Olynyk is an internationally known artist whose prints and installations frequently employ microscopy and biomedical imaging technologies to explore the intersections between art and the life sciences.

Photo by Robert Boston(From left) Rosemary J. Lueck, Marge Boyd and Linda Susan Day admire Lueck’s certificate for 41 years of service to the University at the First Annual Length of University Service award programs June 4 at the Eric P. Newman Education Center.At the First Annual Length of University Service Award programs June 4, employees were recognized for 10 years of service through the 53 years of service by Marge Boyd, who retired from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in December.