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The Women’s Society of Washington University received a major boost for its scholarship fund with a $100,000 gift from the Danforth Foundation, in honor of Elizabeth (Ibby) Danforth. The scholarship provides full tuition for transfer students from the St. Louis community college system.

He apparently suffering a heart attack while walking his dogs near his home in Ladue, Mo.; he was 67.

She joined WUSTL this fall from the University of Pittsburgh, where she had served as chair of the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures.

He died of complications from leukemia Oct. 27 at his home in Clayton; he was 76.

Researchers showed that fumagillin slowed rapid proliferation of cultured mouse brain cells that resulted from the loss of the gene Nf1.

Photo by Mary ButkusNobel Prize-winning economists Kenneth Arrow and Douglass North chat on the occasion of Arrow’s presentation at the University Oct. 21.

A new study shows it is best to take out the thyroid before a child turns 8 years old to guarantee a life free of thyroid cancer.

The retired chair and chief executive officer of Mallinckrodt Inc. died Nov. 4 from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.

Neil Richards, J.D., associate professor of law, is organizing the conference with third-year law student Heather Buethe.

“The office has been buzzing with news of the award — staffers are definitely proud of what we’ve accomplished,” says Margaret Bauer, editor in chief.