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Arye Nehorai, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) at Washington University, was installed as the Eugene and Martha Lohman Professor on March 7, in a ceremony in Whitaker Hall.

From thought-provoking presentations and informative exhibitions to traditional foods and lively entertainment, international students in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work will offer a taste of their homelands during the 12th annual International Festival April 27 and 29. The theme of this year’s festival, which is free and open to the public, is “Bringing the World to You.”

The School of Law will celebrate the outstanding achievements of six individuals on April 21 at its annual Distinguished Alumni Awards Dinner at The Ritz-Carlton. Presenting the awards will be Dean Kent Syverud, J.D., the Ethan A.H. Shepley University Professor. Distinguished Law Alumni Award recipients are Dave L. Cornfeld, Judge Orion L. Douglass, Norman S. London and Charles A. Newman. Judge Raymond W. Gruender and Susan Nell Rowe will receive Distinguished Young Law Alumni Awards.

SchafferJean Schaffer has won a Clinical Scientists Award in Translational Research from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) to support her work on understanding how diabetes contributes to heart failure. Schaffer, associate professor of medicine and of molecular biology and pharmacology, was one of only 10 physician-scientists in the country to receive this year’s award.

Currently a professor of structural engineering at Cornell University, she will succeed Christopher I. Byrnes on July 1, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.

It’s one of the most acclaimed off-Broadway shows of the last decade and surprise winner of the 1996-97 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best musical.

It’s dedicated to the memory of Elizabeth “Ibby” Gray Danforth, the University’s first lady for nearly a quarter century, and Sona Haydon, a longtime lecturer.

Hilltop Campus Phase IVB Housing The superstructure work is complete. Mechanical, electric and plumbing (MEP) rough-ins are progressing. Tarlton Corp. is on schedule for the project. Occupancy remains scheduled for August. Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts In the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, the curtain wall and glazing at the south continue. […]

Andrew M. Bursky, Arnold W. Donald, Harold H. Schreimann, Gary E. Wendlandt, Danielle Forget and Preston M. & Nancy Green will be honored.

Those on the Hilltop Campus holding a University ID card will be able to use their card to purchase snacks and beverages from selected machines.