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Ian Weaver, who earned a master of fine arts degree from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts in May, has won a $15,000 MFA Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation in New York. Weaver was one of 15 students nationwide to receive the award, and the first ever from Washington University.

Photo by David KilperWorkers put finishing touches on the William H. and Elizabeth Gray Danforth University Center, a state-of-the-art gathering place not only for students but also for faculty, staff, friends, parents, alumni and visitors. The building will open to the public Aug. 11 with a full slate of activities — including special tours and giveaways — scheduled for its opening week.

Francis J. Miller, M.D., a part-time associate professor of orthodontics, died Friday, June 20, 2008. He was 73.

Photo by David KilperDan Giammar, Ph.D., associate professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering, and Nevin Peeples, a senior at St. Louis University High School, look at reactors used to study lead concentrations in drinking water. Giammar is mentoring Peeples, one of 83 high-school students participating in this year’s Students and Teachers as Research Scientists (STARS) program.

An up-to-date version of Washington University’s Danforth Campus Employee Handbook is available online at the WUSTL Human Resources Web site. This online version replaces the hard-copy version of the handbook from November 2002. To help make the most up-to-date information accessible to all Danforth Campus employees, the most current version of the handbook will be […]

For the first time, doctoral students on both the Danforth and School of Medicine campuses may apply for subsidies to help defray the cost of child day care.

Due to security guidelines provided by the Commission on Presidential Debates, the application deadline is now 11:59 p.m. July 23 for WUSTL community members wishing to volunteer to support the Oct. 2 vice presidential debate at the University.

The Olin Business School and the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta have created a partnership designed to advance research, teaching and cultural understanding. The collaboration opens opportunities for students and faculty at both institutions, where the schools plan to organize joint programs in business and industry management training.

Photo by Whitney CurtisMartha Storandt, Ph.D., professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences (seated top left), enjoys the opening remarks of a two-day conference celebrating the 50th anniversary of a landmark National Institutes of Health Aging and Development Training Grant. WUSTL received the grant in 1958.

The Department of Athletics finished second in the 2007-08 United States Sports Academy Directors’ Cup Division III standings, as announced by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics, United States Sports Academy and USA Today. The second-place finish is the highest in school history and the Bears’ sixth-straight top 10 appearance: 2002-03 (fifth), 2003-04 […]