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Photo by Robert BostonIn a patient lab, physical therapy students learn how to transfer patients from a wheelchair to a mat, or to sit or stand.

Both talks are part of The Writing Program’s fall Reading Series and will take place in Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall, Room 201.

Photo by Jennifer Weisbord/WUSTLChancellor Mark. S. Wrighton announces the formation of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy at a news conference Oct. 19 in New York.The Academy partners a major American university with top foreign universities and leading multinational corporations.

He came to the University in September 1962 as a visiting associate professor of mathematics; he became a full professor in 1969.

The program supports a group called “100 Neediest Cases,” a joint project of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the United Way.

There is no Campus Watch for this issue of the Record.

Audio clips from the McDonnell International Scholars Academy press conference in New York. Internet listening quality clips are followed by broadcast quality clips.

Amy D. Waterman, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, has received a three-year, $899.663 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration for research titled “Increasing Living Donation in Transplant-Eligible Dialysis Patients.” … Gerhild Williams, Ph.D., chair of the German Department in Arts & Sciences and the David M. […]

Burkhardt will present the Thomas Hall Lecture Oct. 25; Jemison will deliver the Black Arts & Sciences Festival Lecture Oct. 26.

Addressing poverty, famine, infectious diseases, international conflict and other world problems is the mission of a new global education and research initiative announced today by Washington University in St. Louis and a partnership of top foreign universities and multinational corporations. Launched with a $10 million endowment commitment from John F. McDonnell and the JSM Charitable Trust, the McDonnell International Scholars Academy creates a growing worldwide network of scholars, researchers and business and governmental leaders. Designed to nurture future global leaders, the program will provide all-expenses-paid tuition, room, board and travel for exceptional graduate students selected from partner universities around the world. Believed to be the first of its kind in the United States, the program will bring foreign students to the United States to study the sciences, reversing a decline that began after 9/11. The program also will help countries of the world collaborate on critical issues including the environment, medicine and energy and food production and help the United States maintain its place as a world leader in innovation and invention. John C. Danforth, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and three-term member of the U.S. Senate will chair the Academy’s external advisory committee. He joined Washington University Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, McDonnell and other program founders in announcing the initiative at a news conference held today in New York.