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By introducing disorder in the form of forces applied at random to a network of interconnected pendulums, the system became ordered and synchronized.

Featured will be a keynote address by Nicholas Sammond and screenings of the films Duma and Saving Shiloh, the latter of which was shot in St. Louis.

Alumni award recipients were William Gillula, Lynn Gorguze, Lewis Levey and Lin-Kuei Jackson Ling; Stuart Greenbaum & wife Elaine won the Dean’s Medal.

Photo by Kevin LowderEach spring, the dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences recognizes outstanding teaching assistants with a $1,550 cash prize.

A government agency contracted with WUSTL in 1953 to cooperate with two universities in Seoul to develop programs in business administration.

Photo by Joe AngelesEliot Society President Robert L. Virgil, Ph.D., presents the *Search* Award to Murray L. Weidenbaum, Ph.D., April 26.He’s one of the country’s most acclaimed economists and a distinguished WUSTL professor for more than 40 years; the Search is the Eliot Society’s highest honor.

The awards honor faculty members with outstanding dedication to graduate students & commitment to excellence in graduate training.

He will serve as the chancellor’s liaison to the Gephardt Institute for Public Service and assist in the development of the University’s next strategic plan.

Those being honored at the 145th event May 19 are Aaron J. Ciechanover, Anna Crosslin, Steve Fossett, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and John F. McDonnell.

While students first took evening classes at the University in 1854, it wasn’t until 1931 that the night school became “University College.”