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Gary J. Miller, PhD, who conducts experimental research on the politics of organizations, including decision-making in bureaucracies, committees and small groups, and John C. Morris, MD, an internationally renowned researcher of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological disorders associated with aging, will receive Washington University’s 2010 faculty achievement awards in December, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced.

Zhou-Feng Chen, PhD As native St. Louisan and baseball philosopher Yogi Berra once said: “You can observe a lot just by watching.” Although he never heard Berra’s famous “Yogi-isms” while growing up in China, Zhou-Feng Chen, PhD, has followed the former catcher’s sage advice anyway. Chen decided that if he wanted to learn whether an […]

Senior engineering student Katharine Brown (center) shows her research project involving the university’s Formula SAE race car April 17 outside Seigle Hall, where the spring undergraduate research symposium poster presentations took place. More than 150 students participated in the symposium, which provides a forum for undergraduate students to showcase their research projects.

Honoree Joanna Perdomo (center), a junior philosophy-neuroscience-psychology major in Arts & Sciences, visits with proud father Jose Perdomo (right) and senior Emily Heins (left) during a reception for the winners of the 2010 Gerry and Bob Virgil Ethic of Service Award April 15 at the Knight Center.

Sports updates for week of April 26, 2010.

“A runway show is the highest level at which fashion can perform,” says Robin Verhage-Abrams, associate professor in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. On May 1, 13 students from the Sam Fox School — home to the nation’s oldest four-year fashion design program — will rise to that challenge with the school’s 81st Annual Fashion Design Show. Titled “Fashion & Flash,” the fully choreographed, Paris-style extravaganza will begin at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 1, in the university’s Holmes Lounge.

Andrew Kastner has been named the Silk Foundation Campus Rabbi at St. Louis Hillell at Washington University in St. Louis. He will begin his duties in July.

A new Fetal Care Center has opened at Washington University Medical Center as the only comprehensive facility in the Midwest that offers advanced fetal diagnostics, surgery before and after birth and newborn medicine under one roof.

Each One Teach One, the university’s signature tutoring initiative that connects WUSTL tutors with area elementary and high school students, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month.

The Women’s Society of Washington University presented the Harriet K. Switzer Leadership Award and Elizabeth Gray Danforth Scholarships to three exemplary college students at the Formal Lounge of the Ann W. Olin Women’s Building April 21.