Math teams excel in competitions
Two Washington University teams took first and second place in the Missouri Collegiate Mathematics Competition, sponsored each spring by the Missouri section of the Mathematical Association of America, according to Ronald C. Freiwald, Ph.D., professor of mathematics in Arts & Sciences. This year’s competition was held April 17-18 on the campus of Missouri State University […]
Outstanding students honored with award, scholarships by Women’s Society
The Women’s Society of Washington University honored the legacy of two of the University’s most revered women — Elizabeth Gray Danforth and Harriet K. Switzer — at its annual meeting April 16. The society presented the Harriet K. Switzer Leadership Award and two Elizabeth Gray Danforth Scholarships to three exemplary college students at the Formal Lounge of the Ann Whitney Olin Women’s Building.
Heart disease in kidney patients can be prevented
School of Medicine researchers have found drugs to help protect chronic kidney disease patients from cardiovascular disease.
Milestone achievement
Courtesy PhotoFaculty from the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences gathered at Whittemore House April 30 to celebrate the 90th birthday of Annelise Mertz, professor emerita in dance.
Sculptor Hosmer celebrated this summer at Kemper
This summer, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will join other local institutions in celebrating the life and work of neoclassical sculptor Harriet Goodhue Hosmer with a special exhibition on view May 2 through July 21.
‘Opera Circus’ plays at Umrath
The Washington University Opera will perform close to a dozen excerpts from eight well-known operas at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 2 and 3, at Umrath Hall Lounge as part of its “Opera Circus” concert. Performances are sponsored by the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences and are free and open to the […]
Roediger wins Warren Medal for contributions to experimental psychology
The Society of Experimental Psychologists has awarded its highest honor to Henry L. “Roddy” Roediger III, Ph.D., an internationally recognized scholar of human memory and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences. Citing “his creative experimental investigations of false memory and its underlying processes that have led to a new understanding […]
Got milk?
Photo by Joe AngelesTony Knowlton, mechanic in Facilities Yellow Zone, and his daughter, Sarah, 11, test breakfast cereal in Busch Hall during the “Soggy Cereal and the Scientific Method” session at Take Our Daughters & Sons to Work day celebration April 24.
Outstanding mentors
Photo by Whitney CurtisOutstanding Faculty Mentor Award winners gather outside the Women’s Building at the April 23 awards ceremony.
Of note
Robert E. Blankenship, Ph.D.,
Thomas K. Croat, Ph.D.,
Jacqueline E. Payton, M.D., Ph.D.,
Frank Stadermann, Ph.D.,
Luis H. Zayas, Ph.D.,
and more…
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