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Photo by David KilperJill Edwards, project manager in the University’s administrative offices, receives a 2007 Gerry and Bob Virgil Ethic of Service Award April 19 at Whittemore House from W. Edwin Dodson, M.D., associate vice chancellor and associate dean for admissions and for continuing medical education and professor of neurology and of pediatrics at the School of Medicine.

Four alumni of the John M. Olin School of Business received Distinguished Alumni Awards April 19 at the school’s annual dinner at The Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis. Mahendra R. Gupta, Ph.D., dean of the business school, presented the Dean’s Medal at the same dinner. This year’s alumni award recipients are David Becker (MBA ’89), Carl Casale (EMBA ’92), Barbara Ann Feiner (MBA ’83) and Steven Stull (BSBA ’81, MBA ’85); W. Patrick McGinnis (MBA ’72) was awarded the Dean’s Medal. More…

Senior Jonathan Garst Orozco has been named winner of the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences Spector Award, presented annually in memory of Marion Smith Spector, a 1938 graduate of the University.

Shirley Lute, a 77-year-old victim of domestic violence, will be released from prison thanks to the efforts of the School of Law’s Civil Justice Clinic and Jane Aiken, J.D., the William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law and director of the clinic.

The Washington University Concert Choir and the Washington University Symphony Orchestra will present the 2007 Chancellor’s Concert at 3 p.m. April 29 in the University’s E. Desmond Lee Auditorium at 560 Trinity Ave.

The women picked up their eighth straight — and 11th overall — UAA outdoor team title April 22.

Photo by Mary Butkus(From left) Lorraine Gnecco; her husband, Stephen H. Legomsky, J.D., D.Phil.; Ruth Chi-Fen Chen, Ph.D., research associate in the School of Engineering & Applied Science; and her husband, Kent D. Syverud, J.D., dean of the School of Law and the Ethan A.H. Shepley University Professor, at Legomsky’s installation as the inaugural John S. Lehmann University Professor March 26.

The University, one of many universities receiving inquiries from the Office of Attorney General of the State of New York concerning student lending practices — as well as an inquiry from the Missouri Office of Attorney General — has agreed with both the Missouri and New York attorneys general to adopt a code of conduct guiding the University’s relations with private lenders from whom the University’s students and their families seek college financing.

UnanueImmunology researchers from across the United States and as far away as Sweden are coming to the School of Medicine to discuss some of the latest scientific insights into the immune system. The general public is welcome to attend.The symposium, “Immunology at the Horizon of the New Millennium,” is being held in honor of Emil Unanue, M.D., the Paul and Ellen Lacy Professor of Pathology. Unanue served as head of the Department of Pathology and Immunology for 21 years, stepping down last summer.

“A Temple of Texts” by William H. Gass, Ph.D., the David May Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Humanities in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is the 2007 winner of the $30,000 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin. The Capote Award, the largest annual cash prize for literary criticism in the English language, is administered for the Truman Capote Estate by the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa.