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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.

(Left to right) Damien Fair, Binyam Nardos, Sam Craig, Rahel Nardos, and Tracy Nicholson show the books delivered to medical students in Ethiopia.Several student groups and administrators at the School of Medicine and residents at Barnes-Jewish Hospital have collected nearly 500 medical textbooks to help their counterparts in Ethiopia. The textbooks will replace outdated books at the medical school at Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa University, the main teaching hospital in the country’s capital city. Rahel Nardos, a native of Ethiopia and a fourth-year resident, came up with the idea after spending a week working in Addis Ababa University’s hospital last year.

When then-students Jason Hill and Leon Scott performed a spoken word piece about health disparities and the roles of physicians during the 2004 Medical School class show, the audience was captivated by what became the highlight of the show. So when fourth-year student Kathy Lee was planning a training conference on preventing hepatitis B, she recruited Hill and Scott to create a spoken word performance piece. Spoken word is an innovative performing art that intertwines elements of rap and poetry.

Samuel Isaac Weissman, Ph.D., professor emeritus of chemistry who had worked on the Manhattan Project, died Tuesday (June 12, 2007) at 2 McKnight Place at the age of 94. He was a longtime resident of St. Louis.

Bernard Harris, first African American to walk in space, visits science camp for middle school students at Washington University in St. Louis on Wednesday, June 20, 2007.

The Department of Athletics finished fifth in the 2006-07 U.S. Sports Academy Directors’ Cup Division III standings — the Bears fifth straight Top 10 appearance.

Photo by Mary ButkusFive graduating members of the softball team receive their diplomas in a special ceremony led by Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton (left) May 24 at Whittemore House.