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Shirley K. Baker, Dean of University Libraries and Vice Chancellor for Information Technology, has been appointed for a three year term to the National Institutes of Health’s PubMed Central National Advisory Committee. She has also agreed to serve a two-year on the Advisory Board for the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, a collaborative program of Canadian […]

Track & field teams are UAA champions The men’s and women’s track and field teams swept the UAA Outdoor Championships at Francis Field April 23-24. With the two league championships, the University broke the UAA record for most overall conference titles during a single athletic year with 11; WUSTL also held the old record, nine, […]

“George took enormous and justifiable pride in his depth of knowledge and expertise in mycology,” colleague Russell Little Jr. said.

Shahrouz Yousefi received the Elizabeth Gray Danforth Scholarship; Laura Seger & Teresa Sullivan won leadership awards.

Photo by Robert BostonFaculty, staff and students enjoy the “Managing Knowledge in the Digital Domain” symposium sponsored by the Bernard Becker Medical Library.

Scientists found that single doses of the antibodies given soon after infection could boost survival rates to 90 percent or higher. More medical news

Washington University professors John E. Heuser, Henry L. “Roddy” Roediger III and Norman J. Schofield have been elected as fellows in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences class of 2005. Heuser, MD., is a professor of Cell Biology and Physiology in the School of Medicine; Roediger, Ph.D., is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and Dean of Academic Planning in Arts & Sciences; and Schofield, Ph.D., is the William R. Taussig Professor of Political Economy in Arts & Sciences and director of the Center for Political Economy.

SyverudKent D. Syverud, dean of the Vanderbilt University Law School, has been named dean of the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, effective Jan. 1, 2006, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. He also will become the Ethan A. H. Shepley University Professor. Joel Seligman, who came to Washington University in 1999 to serve as law dean, will become president of the University of Rochester on July 1, 2005. Prior to Syverud’s arrival, Daniel L. Keating, associate dean for academic affairs and the Tyrrell Williams Professor of Law, will serve as dean until Dec. 31, 2005.

Letter from Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton to SWA members continuing the dialogue and efforts to resolve the sit-in.

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and members of the Student Worker Alliance will announce at a media briefing that Washington University and the Student Worker Alliance have reached an agreement and the students will end their occupation of Brookings Hall and the Quadrangle.