Newsroom Stories

Photo by Mary ButkusFaculty achievement award winners Enola K. Proctor, Ph.D. (left), and Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D., get a sneak peak of their award plaques before the faculty achievement awards ceremony Dec. 5 at the May Auditorium in Simon Hall. Proctor received the Arthur Holly Compton Award for Faculty Achievement, and Gordon was presented the Carl and Gerty Cori Award for Faculty Achievement.

At its winter meeting Dec. 4, the Board of Trustees elected Andrea J. Grant, J.D., a prominent Washington, D.C., attorney, to the Board, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. Grant is a partner with DLA Piper in the District of Columbia. She earned two degrees from the University — a bachelor’s degree in 1971 and […]

Nine Washington University Libraries will be closed from Dec. 25-Jan. 3, 2010, and will operate on a shortened schedule during throughout intersession (Dec. 18-Jan. 18). Students, faculty, and staff will continue to have full access to the libraries’ online resources throughout the intersession.

Jacqueline “Jackie” Ulin Levey, J.D., has been hired as the executive director of St. Louis Hillel at Washington University. A University alumna, Levey replaces Michael Landy, who resigned in September. Levey graduated with honors and earned a bachelor’s degree in political science in Arts & Sciences in 1997. She also earned a juris doctorate from […]

In honor of Whittemore House’s 40th anniversary as a premier gathering space, the Whittemore House board of directors has voted to alter membership requirements to make the facility more accessible to University faculty and staff members.

The Brookings Institution and Washington University’s Academic Venture Capital Fund (AVCF) is seeking proposals from fellows, faculty, staff, centers, institutes and programs at both institutions. The purpose of the AVCF is to support collaboration between the people and programs at both Washington University and the Brookings Institution, particularly long-term projects that impact research, education and […]

The sixth annual School of Medicine Art Show will be held Jan. 14-Feb. 11, 2010 in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center Atrium.

Nominations are due Dec. 15 for the second annual James M. Holobaugh Honors.

A receptor that removes cholesterol from the blood also may reduce the formation of brain plaques associated with Alzheimer’s disease, suggest researchers at the School of Medicine.

Robert L. Grubb Jr., M.D., professor emeritus of neurosurgery, continues to be an active member of the University community, seeing outpatients in clinics three days a week, serving as the principal neurosurgical investigator on a major multicenter clinical trial and working on a history of the Department of Neurosurgery in honor of its upcoming centennial in 2011.