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(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 The textbooks will replace outdated books at the medical school at Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa University, the main teaching hospital in the country’s capital city.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.

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.

Cornerstone: The Center for Advanced Learning has received a one-year, $44,800 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to study student migration patterns in and out of the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields.

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.

John “Chris” Kroeger, engineering associate dean and registrar, was recognized with the Gloria W. White Distinguished Service Award in a May 21 ceremony in Edison Theatre as part of the annual Staff Day activities.

University Libraries has announced the four 2007 undergraduate and graduate student winners of the 20th annual Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition.

St. Louis native Brad W. Warner, M.D., has been named pediatric surgeon-in-chief at the School of Medicine and St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

Photo by Tim ParkerCharles F. and Joanne Knight with Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and Tim Eberlein, M.D., at the dedication of the Joanne Knight Breast Health Center and Breast Cancer Program at Siteman Cancer Center.