Newsroom Stories

Gilbert Riley Whitaker Jr., a faculty member in the John M. Olin School of Business from 1966-1976 and associate dean of the business school from 1973-76, died Thursday, June 21, 2007. He was 75.

Robert Clayton Mudd, visiting lecturer in political science in Arts & Sciences from 1978-1980 and instructor in University College during the late 1980s, died Thursday, June 14, 2007. He was 88.

The John M. Olin School of Business has received a major gift from the Bauer Foundation to establish the George and Carol Bauer Professorship in Organizational Ethics and Governance.

Photo by David Kilper(From left) Seventh-grader Sebastian Cooper of Jury Elementary School, eighth-grader David Wallas of Pattonville Heights Middle School, Bernard Harris, M.D., NASA astronaut, and seventh-grader David Tate of Fairview Elementary School build a raft using just two squares of aluminum foil and four drinking straws. Forty-eight middle-school students from various area schools were chosen to attend a two-week residential ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp, held on campus June 16-27.

Matthew Malten’s appointment marks the first time that Washington University has given a person the responsibility for campus sustainability.

Patricia Olynyk has been named director of the Graduate School of Art, part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Olynyk is an internationally known artist whose prints and installations frequently employ microscopy and biomedical imaging technologies to explore the intersections between art and the life sciences.

StanleySamuel Stanley, vice chancellor of research, has been named an Ambassador in Research!America’s Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research. Stanley is now one of 50 of the nation’s foremost global health experts who have joined forces to increase awareness about the critical need for greater U.S. public and private investment in research to improve global health.

Listed below are this month’s featured news stories. • New treatment for obesity? (week of July 4) • Heading off vaccine side-effects (week of July 11) • Brain’s chain-of-command (week of July 18) • Repairing ‘sports hernias’ (week of July 25)

Lung transplants have been performed successfully for more than 20 years in humans but never before in mice – until now. Surgeons at the School of Medicine have developed the first mouse model of lung transplantation, and they’re hoping it will help explain why the success of the procedure in humans lags far behind other solid organ transplants.

Researchers at the School of Medicine have found that a protein absorbs lipids in the upper part of the intestine, and they believe its key role in this process may provide a novel approach for obesity treatment in the future. Principal investigator Nada Abumrad first identified the protein, CD36, that facilitates the uptake of fatty acids.