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John MajorThe Right Honorable Sir John Major, former prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and a leading authority on the changing global landscape, will deliver the 2006 Commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis. The university’s 145th Commencement will begin at 8:30 a.m. May 19 in Brookings Quadrangle. During the ceremony, Washington University will award honorary degrees to five prominent people, including a 2004 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry and a pioneering scholar of African and African-American literature. The university will also bestow academic degrees on more than 2,500 students.

There are no campus watch items for this issue of the Record.

Assab and Massawa, the two camels that produced antibodies for the caffeine testThree llamas and two camels have provided a way to tell whether your waiter swapped regular coffee for decaf in your after-dinner cup. Using the heat-resistant antibodies these camels and llamas make, researchers at the School of Medicine are developing a quick test for caffeine that works even with hot beverages. The researchers plan to adapt their technology to a simple test (“dipstick”) that can be used to check for caffeine in a variety of drinks.

Five undergraduates pursuing unpaid public-service internships will be the first beneficiaries of a new Public Service Summer Stipend program.

The showing marks the University’s highest finish at College Bowl nationals since twice coming in second, in 1980 and 1984.

McBride will become the next director, succeeding Jim Davis; Kurtzman will become associate director; Kristin Lappin will remain assistant director.

Sherraden will receive the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award, and Unanue will receive the Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award.

WUSTL, BJH will provide free asthma screenings May 20 at the Saint Louis Science Center.

In the famous Robert Frost poem “The Road Not Taken,” the narrator, forced to travel one of two roads, takes the one less traveled by, and “that has made all the difference.” Chemists at WUSTL and Stanford University, in kinship with Frost, have modified a key protein in a bacterium to move electrons along a […]

Photo by Kevin LowderThe Outstanding TRIO Achiever Award, recognizing a senior who has excelled in leadership, scholarship and community service, was given to Felecia Webb.