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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 […]

“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.

The ArtSci Council honored eight Arts & Sciences faculty for “positively and profoundly” influencing students’ educational experiences during its annual Faculty Awards Recognition Ceremony April 12 in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge.

Seven architecture faculty from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts are among five teams that have advanced to the design phase of the international competition to reinvigorate the area around St. Louis’ iconic Gateway Arch. At 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 28, representatives from all five teams will meet with the public to discuss how they plan to approach the competition’s goals as they begin developing their proposals.

Whether it’s for money, marbles or chalk, the brains of reward-driven people keep their game faces on, helping them win at every step of the way, even when there is no reward at stake, suggests a surprising Washington University in St. Louis brain scan study published online today by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.