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She’s the author of three collections of poetry: Fire in the Conservatory (1982); The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep (1996); and Waterborne (2002).

The research associate and lecturer in the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences edited The Rock-Art of Eastern North America: Capturing Images and Insight.

“We wanted to create artwork that drew people to portraits for their distinctiveness as faculty, as human beings and as researchers,” says the school’s Deborah Booker.

Courtesy PhotoPathfinder Program students use an emission spectrometer at the Rio Tinto site in southern Spain.The work conducted along the Rio Tinto in Spain was part of the program’s Capstone Experience, a research-intensive field study conducted during the senior year.

The goal is to have the entire roadway — every lane in each direction — open for motor-vehicle traffic by then; much of the concrete has been poured along the route.

“30 Years of Sisterhood,” a documentary film on the 1970s genesis of Japan’s women’s liberation movement, will be in the campus spotlight Feb. 28 as Washington University hosts a group of Japanese activists, filmmakers and scholars now touring the nation to promote the project. Plans call for a special screening of the film at 3 p.m. Feb. 28 in Room 201, Crow Hall, followed by a panel discussion and reception. Sponsored by the Visiting East Asian Professionals (VEAP) program and the Women and Gender Studies program, both in Arts & Sciences.

In just six months of collaboration, a Department of Energy grand challenge led by Washington University in St. Louis has resulted in the sequencing and annotation of a cyanobacterium that could yield clues to how environmental conditions influence key carbon fixation processes at the gene-mRNA-protein levels in an organism.

The recent revolution in the life sciences- the sequencing of the human genome, and development of “high throughput” technologies- has created new opportunities for investigation, and created new challenges for educators. Sarah C.R. Elgin, Ph.D., professor of biology; biochemistry and molecular biophysics; and education in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been a proponent and creator of partnerships locally and nationwide to improve the life science education both in K-12 schools and at the undergraduate level.

Nationally there has been considerable recent debate and discussion about how to ascertain the effectiveness of any given school curriculum. Under the auspices of the National Research Council, a committee, chaired by Jere Confrey, Ph.D., professor of education in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has written the report “On Evaluating Curriculum Effectiveness.” “This discussion of how to establish curricular effectiveness in mathematics is particularly relevant in light of President Bush’s State of the Union address and budget, which includes significant expenditures on improving mathematics and science education in this country,” Confrey said. “If the funds are to make a difference, thorough, valid and fair evaluations of materials will be critical.”

Paul J. Goodfellow, Ph.D., is in a professional war with cancer. The professor of genetics, surgery, and of obstetrics and gynecology brings an arsenal of knowledge and passion to his research battle with the formidable adversary. “Disease is competition. In the case of cancer, it’s like Darwinian evolution: The best genetic material wins,” Goodfellow says. […]