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Projects include the finishing touches on the new Liggett House and excavation work for the new underground parking facility.

“Recognizing Karen Wooley’s outstanding career by associating it with the McDonnell legacy at Washington University couldn’t be more appropriate,” Edward Macias says.

Also, re-elected as officers of the board were David W. Kemper as chairman and John F. McDonnell and Stephen F. Brauer as vice chairmen.

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.

Photo by Kevin LowderA painting by local artist Gilbert “Chic” Early will be displayed at the Weidenbaum Center in honor of the highly respected WUSTL professor and public-policy scholar.