Newsroom Stories

The Washington University Medical Center Redevelopment Corp. recently received a What’s Right with the Region award from Focus St. Louis in the category of promoting strong communities.

Jane Quinn, assistant executive director for community schools with the Children’s Aid Society (CAS), will deliver the keynote address during the Brown School diploma ceremony at 11 a.m. Friday, May 21, in Graham Chapel.

Haoyi Wang, PhD, helped develop a technique for mapping all the genes in a cell that respond to a particular genetic switch while earning his doctorate from WUSTL. Wang is the Record‘s 2010 Outstanding Graduate in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.

Four faculty have been recruited to Washington University School of Medicine through its Faculty Diversity Scholars Program.

The three witches on the stormy heath had no trouble foretelling Macbeth’s kingly future. But seven or eight decades ago, those hags would have had a harder time choosing one storyline for a young Lawrence Kahn. He had a rich and complex life ahead of him.

A new Guinness World Record was set May 16 at the Athletic Complex as 710 WUSTL seniors and administrators formed the longest human shoulder massage chain in history. The previous record of 617 people was set in January in Canada. Students will submit the event to Guinness for verification and to be listed on the organization’s website as an official world record.

Peter K. Cramer, PhD, has been named new assistant dean of graduate programs in the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis. His duties include coordinating recruitment, admissions and placement of the law school’s graduate programs and for the day-to-day operations of those programs. This summer, the law school is launching a new executive LLM program co-taught by law faculty at WUSTL and Korea University. 

Sports updates for week of May 17, 2010

Michelle Tsai, who was born with a congenital heart defect, aims to make a career out of helping children with chronic medical conditions. Getting a dual degree May 21 in psychology and in philosophy-neuroscience-psycholo, she has been chosen by the Record an Outstanding Graduate in the College of Arts & Sciences

Language is a key that opens doors to other cultures and adventures at home and abroad for Spanish and Latin American studies major Grace Van Voorhis, one of the Record‘s 2010 Outstanding Graduates in the College of Arts & Sciences.