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Award-winning School of Social Work professor and scholar will serve four-year term.

Promising public-sector career and internship opportunities await undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students.

Photo by Joe Angeles/WUSTL PhotoThe Kemper Art Museum, designed by Fumihiko Maki, is both the centerpiece and the public face of the university’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. The five-building, $56.8 million complex also features Maki’s new Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker Hall, which will house studios, classrooms and offices for art students and faculty. Click to see photos from the Oct. 25 dedication of both buildings.

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The annual Dance Marathon charity fund-raising event will be held Nov. 4-5 at the Athletic Complex. Dance Marathon is a year-long effort to raise funds and awareness for Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) of Greater St. Louis. Planned and executed entirely by undergraduate students at WUSTL, all proceeds go directly to St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center. While fund-raising events take place throughout the entire year, the main event is the 12-hour dance-a-thon.

A new device used at Siteman Cancer Center will protect staff from the possibility of incidental exposure to trace amounts of chemotherapy drugs generated during administration.

A specialist with the Barnes Retina Institute, Van Gelder also directs the Uveitis Service for the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences.

Photo by Kevin LowderThe Aristocats perform Oct. 12 in Graham Chapel as part of a concert to benefit Gulf Coast rebuilding efforts.

Photo by Robert BostonThe staff at the Washington University Diabetes Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital discuss nutrition and insulin pumps at the Open House Sept. 25.

Catherine Striley, Ph.D., research instructor in psychiatry, has received a one-year, $19,979 grant from the Office of Research Integrity for research titled “Mentoring and Supervision for the Responsible Conduct of Research.” … David M. Holtzman, M.D., the Andrew B. and Gretchen P. Jones Professor of Neurology, has received a one-year, $17,735.38 grant from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation for spinal cord injury research. … John Dipersio, M.D., Ph.D., the Lewis T. and Rosalind B. Apple Professor of Medicine, has received a one-year, $17,635 grant from Case Western Reserve University for research titled “Phase III Trial of UCB /- MSCs in Hematologic Cancers. … Sergey Troyanovsky, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $15,000 grant from the American Skin Association for research titled “Structural and Functional Abnormalitites in Cadherin Adhesion in Melanomas.”