Newsroom Stories

Track and field sweeps UAA championships For the second straight season, the men’s and women’s track and field teams swept the University Athletic Association Outdoor Championships. The Bears secured both outdoor titles April 23 in Cleveland, totaling 13 individual crowns on the day. The Bears women tallied seven individual titles in the final day of […]

Jorge Marcos received the 2006-07 full-tuition scholarship, Zachary Wegmann won the partial, and the Leadership Award was presented to Imani Anwisye.

Jessica Friedman has been awarded a Morris K. Udall Scholarship, while Andy Schupanitz will receive a $32,000 Beinecke Scholarship for graduate study.

Photo by Kevin LowderJeffrey Goodman, an English teacher at the Alabama Mathematics and Science Academy, won the 2006 Cornerstone Faculty Mentor Award.

He was famous for proving the existence of a radioactive isotope, element 94 on the periodic table, that had been postulated but never isolated.

Jim Burmeister was honored April 21-22 after stepping down following 35 years as adviser to the Thurtene Junior Honorary and Thurtene Carnival.

Schaal and Epstein are among 195 men and women elected this year by the academy, an organization formed in 1870 to cultivate the arts and sciences.

George Warren Brown School of Social Work students from various countries will offer a taste of their homelands through traditional foods and lively entertainment.

Photo by Robert BostonEmployees from Brown Shoe Company and physicians and staff from the Siteman Cancer CenterSiteman Cancer Center got quite a bargain when Brown Shoe Company, QVC and the Fashion Footwear Association of New York (FFANY) teamed up to offer half-price shoes at the 12th Annual QVC Presents “FFANY Shoes on Sale” event during October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The net proceeds benefit breast cancer research and education programs across the country.

The Linguistic Profiling and Linguistic Human Rights conference will be held on campus April 28-29. Sponsored by African and African American Studies in Arts & Sciences and the Ford Foundation, the conference will explore issues surrounding legal considerations of linguistic profiling, fair housing, language restriction on the job and racial, sexual and deaf discrimination, among others.