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Henric Stefan W. Krawczynski, Ph.D., Gregory C. DeAngelis, Ph.D. and Heinz M. Schaettlerr, Ph.D.

HaskinProfessor Larry Haskin died today, March 24, 2005, after a long struggle with a blood disorder called myelofibrosis. He died in his sleep at home. There will be no public service. He is survived by his wife, Mary Haskin, his son Dierk, his daughters Rachel and Jean, and four grandchildren. Professor Haskin joined Washington University in 1976, following three years with NASA’s Johnson Space Center as chief of the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Division. He served as chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences until 1990.

Robert Moses, one of the leading figures in the American civil rights movement, will give the Assembly Series lecture at 11 a.m. Wed., April 6 in Graham Chapel. The annual Martin Luther King memorial event, sponsored by the Association of Black Students, is free and open to the public. This is the keynote address for the “Documenting Change” symposium.

“An Evening in Paris” — well, actually in the Khorassan Ballroom of the Chase Park Plaza — is the theme of the 2005 Newman Gala, a fund-raising auction and dinner dance April 9 benefiting the Catholic Student Center at Washington University in St. Louis. The gala begins with cocktails and a silent auction at 5:30 p.m. (doors open at 5 p.m.). The event also includes an oral auction and, following dinner, dancing to Arvell and Company, a seven-piece band performing Motown and other classics. The fund-raiser is considered a vital source of support for the center, whose mission is to form students intellectually, morally, socially and spiritually through education, service and a worshipping community.

Things have been changing around the Becker Library, and the Symposium on Managing Knowledge in the Digital Domain is an engaging event designed to inform WUSM faculty, staff and students of all that is new. The gathering, featuring food and door prizes, takes place 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. April 19 in the library atrium and King […]

A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he worked on the frontiers of space research for more than four decades.

University researchers have used a statistical analysis to generate new risk estimates for respiratory distress syndrome.

The six-hour meeting included reports from the deans of all eight schools and the dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.

The award-winning 12-member group will be joined by Mama’s Pot Roast, a WUSTL improv comedy troupe.

Photo by Mary ButkusWilliam P. Bottom was installed March 9 as the first Joyce and Howard Wood Distinguished Professor in Business.