Newsroom Stories

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.

Jacqueline “Jackie” Ulin Levey has been hired as the executive director of St. Louis Hillel at Washington University.

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.

Gary C. Dollar, president and chief executive officer of the United Way of Greater St. Louis, delivers remarks at the December Degree Candidate Recognition Ceremony in Graham Chapel Dec. 5. Looking on is Grand Marshal Robert E. Wiltenburg, Ph.D. (center), dean of University College in Arts & Sciences, and Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, who gave the Chancellor’s Message to the degree candidates.

Three academic appointments have been announced by Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.

Photo by David KilperDespite the un-winter-like temperatures in early December, Mudd Field turned into a winter playground Dec. 1. Students skated on a temporary “ice” surface, a 30-by-40-foot plastic sheet designed to accommodate real skates.

The Brookings Institution and Washington University’s Academic Venture Capital Fund is seeking proposals from fellows, faculty, staff, centers, institutes and programs at both institutions.

Photo by Mary ButkusEight women printmakers, all faculty or alumni from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, installed a series of artworks in the School of Law’s Anheuser-Busch Hall.

Nathan A. Baker, Ph.D., Michael R. Brent, Ph.D., Philip Burkhardt and Brendan Wittstruck, Robert Criss, Ph.D., and more…

This is the last issue of the Record simultaneously published in print and electronic versions. The Record will go entirely digital in January 2010 to improve timely communication to the University community and to reduce printing and distribution costs.