Doing the heart good
Robert BostonThrough echocardiographs and summer camps, Angela Sharkey makes an impact.
Apply now for Bear Cub Fund grants
The University Bear Cub Fund is soliciting grant applications from University researchers who want to move inventions from their laboratories toward commercialization.
Constitutional scholar Bell opens spring Assembly Series
Constitutional scholar Derrick Bell will present the first program in a full schedule for the Assembly Series’ 2008 spring semester. Among the Series’ speakers are scientists, legal scholars, writers and sex experts, plus a concert performed by the St. Louis Symphony. For more information on the spring calendar visit assemblyseries.wustl.edu or call 935-5285.
School of Medicine establishes faculty recognition program
Eighteen School of Medicine faculty will be recognized Jan. 23 with the first Distinguished Faculty Awards.
Carl Bender becomes the inaugural Konneker Distinguished Professor
The first Wilfred R. and Ann Lee Konneker Distinguished Professorship of Physics in Arts & Sciences was presented to Carl Bender, Ph.D., in an installation ceremony Nov. 27 in Holmes Lounge.
Honoring the Past
Mary ButkusJames Carr (right), a great-great-great grandson of James Yeatman, along with Crow Observatory assistants Kim Venta (left), a junior physics major, and Joe Bohanon, a mathematics graduate student, look at a plaque on the Yeatman Telescope honoring one of the more unique gifts in WUSTL history.
Men’s basketball likes home cooking
Senior Troy Ruths scored a game-high 26 points to lead the No. 7 men’s basketball team to a 76-50 win in its University Athletic Association (UAA) opener against the University of Chicago Jan. 12. Go to BearSports The win was the Bears’ 22nd consecutive at home, tying the school’s all-time record, a streak that was […]
Skinner, professor of otolaryngology, 72
Margaret Walker Skinner, Ph.D., professor of otolaryngology and director of the Cochlear Implant and Hearing Rehabilitation Program, died Friday, Jan. 11, 2008, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital after a long illness. She was 72.
Minority Business Council honors WUSTL
Washington University received the Institution of the Year award from the St. Louis Minority Business Council (SLMBC) at its annual awards banquet Dec. 6 at the Renaissance Grand Hotel in downtown St. Louis. The SLMBC’s Minority Business Enterprise Input Committee (MBEIC), made up of 17 minority business owners, selected WUSTL as Institution of the Year. […]
Trustees grant faculty promotions, tenure
At recent Board of Trustees meetings, the following faculty members were promoted with tenure, appointed with tenure or granted tenure effective July 1, 2007, unless otherwise noted.
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