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Yehuda Ben-Shahar, Ph.D., Peter Benson, Ph.D., Pamela Jakiela, Ph.D., John Klein, Ph.D., Robert F. Krueger, Ph.D., Claire Solomon, Ph.D., Roy Sorensen, Ph.D., and Margit Tavits, Ph.D.

The Alumni Association will commemorate Washington University’s founding at the annual Founders Day ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 8, at the America’s Center.

Photo by David KilperWorkers admire their efforts to restore the statue of Scottish poet Robert Burns, located on the southeast side of campus adjacent to Bixby Hall. The eight-foot-tall bronze statue by Robert Ingersoll Aitken is part of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum collection.

Da-Ren Chen, Ph.D., Philip E. Cryer, M.D., W. Michael Dunne, Ph.D., Sarah Finger, Donna B. Jeffe, Ph.D., and more…

Gwen Bennett, Ph.D., assistant professor of art history and archaeology in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $335,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation Initiative on East and Southeast Asian Archaeology and Early History. The grant will allow Bennett to expand her ongoing fieldwork into the ancient landscape and settlements of the Chengdu Plain […]

Photo by Mary ButkusMichael Greenfield, J.D., the George Alexander Madill Professor of Contracts and Commercial Law, and his wife, Claire Halpern, cut the ribbon during the dedication of the Greenfield Classroom in Seigle Hall Oct. 8.

Photo by Mary ButkusChancellor Mark S. Wrighton addresses students participating in the fall Undergraduate Research Symposium Oct. 25 in the Danforth University Center.

Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D., and David M. Holtzman, M.D., have been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Disadvantaged and minority populations are more likely to be diagnosed with and die from cancer than other groups in the United States. A five-year, $8.6 million grant to Washington University will explore how improved information and referral systems can help eliminate these disparities.

The School of Law will hold intersession courses Jan. 5-9, 2009, allowing upper-level students to take a one-unit short course in a subject that enriches their curriculum.