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School of Medicine faculty, John C. Morris, M.D., James Hsieh, M.D., Ph.D., Zsolt Urban, Ph.D., Carolyn J. Anderson, Ph.D., and more…

Josh Smith’s method could help paleobiologists identify and reconstruct the lives of the creatures that roamed the Earth millions of years ago.

The Record will not be published next week due to Thanksgiving. Look for our next edition Dec. 2.

Upon her death on March 30, the Danforth Foundation gave a $100,000 gift to the Elizabeth Gray Danforth Scholarship Endowment.

Photo by Mary ButkusEconomist Ping Wang gives a presentation of his scholarly work during his installation as the inaugural Seigle Family Professor in Arts & Sciences.

For Fatemeh Keshavarz, Ph.D., associate professor of Persian and of comparative literature, both in Arts & Sciences, poetry is much more than an academic discipline. It is a profoundly personal experience that requires both the poet and the reader to be fully involved in its consummation. “Poetry is the magic we perform with language,” she […]

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 […]

Researchers reported on a study of 33 professional baseball pitchers in the October issue of the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

Beginning this fall, some Assembly Series lectures are available online. Class scheduling conflicts have become an increasing problem for many undergraduates who want to attend the Wednesday morning lectures. The Web streaming will enable them to access a lecture whenever they wish.

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.