Bender notable

Carl M. Bender, Ph.D., professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, delivered a talk, titled “Ghost Busting: Making Sense of Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians,” as a principal invited speaker at four international conferences this summer. The first conference was the 10th Claude Itzykson Meeting on “Quantum Field Theory Then and Now,” held in June at the Service […]

Carmon Colangelo named dean of Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

Courtesy photoCarmon ColangeloCarmon Colangelo, director of the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia, Athens, has been named the first dean of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced today. Formation of the Sam Fox School comes amidst a nearly $60 million campaign to improve campus arts facilities. Colangelo’s appointment takes effect July 1, 2006.

Washington University receives $29.5 million to sequence corn genome

Researchers at the Genome Sequencing Center (GSC) at the School of Medicine will lead the sequencing of the genome of maize, more popularly known to consumers as corn. The National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Energy allocated a total of $32 million for sequencing maize. The GSC maize genome project will receive $29.5 million of that funding.

November 2005 Radio Service

Listed below are this month’s featured news stories. • Pitchers’ elbow (week of Nov. 2) • Mouse love songs (week of Nov. 9) • Early removal of thyroid cancer (week of Nov. 16) • Diabetic epidemic worsens (week of Nov. 23)

In honor of Ibby Danforth, WSWU receives major gift

The Women’s Society of Washington University received a major boost for its scholarship fund with a $100,000 gift from the Danforth Foundation, in honor of Elizabeth (Ibby) Danforth. The scholarship provides full tuition for transfer students from the St. Louis community college system.
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