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Richard J. Smith, Ph.D., the Ralph E. Morrow Distinguished University Professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences, will become dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences July 1, 2008, when Robert E. Thach, Ph.D., dean since 1993, steps down, announced Edward S. Macias, Ph.D.

Yahoo Inc. has made the Olin Business School and the School of Engineering two of its “Tier One” (core school) recruitment targets for recruiting operations and finance talent. “For many students, Yahoo is a premier company to work for,” said Mahendra Gupta, Ph.D., dean of the business school. “In addition to creating more opportunities for […]

Photo by David KilperMary Sansalone, dean of the School of Engineering, visits with state Rep. Allen Icet (R-84th), chairman of the House Budget Committee, shortly before her presentation at the BIO Benchmarking program held Sept. 5 in the Knight Center.

Registration continues for Dance Marathon 2007, a student-run effort to raise funds for and promote awareness of the Children’s Miracle Network of Greater St. Louis.

School of Medicine researchers will head a national study of addiction, looking both at genetic and environmental factors that contribute to the problem.

Local researchers have developed an improved dosing formula for the widely prescribed anticoagulant warfarin (Coumadin) that considers variations in two key genes.

The School of Medicine has joined the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium (MMRC) to speed the development of new myeloma therapies.

Two recently discovered control networks that govern voluntary brain activity in adults start life as a single network in children.

The proliferation of new and digital media — from computers and Web sites to television screens, cell phones and other handheld devices — has profoundly impacted the ways we see and interact with the world around us. It also has provided tremendous new possibilities for the creation and experience of art. This fall, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will launch several new outreach programs designed to highlight the aesthetics and expanding role of new media and digital art.

As a distinguished theoretical physicist and accomplished writer, Alan Lightman has successfully bridged the gap between science and the humanities. At 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19, in Graham Chapel, Lightman will provide an understanding of one of the greatest triumphs of the human imagination with the Department of English Hurst Visiting Professorship Lecture, “Einstein and Relativity.”