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He authored a report that shows that modern humans are really the “odd man out” when it comes to facial lengths.

Eliot Residence Hall was imploded June 21 to make way for a new residential hall that will retain the Eliot name.

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Kenneth L. Jerina’s honor is the highest society recognition for individual contributions to standards activities.

Researchers at the University’s Genome Sequencing Center found that the human Y chromosome carries many duplicate genes.

Twenty students, including 15 from other universities, are participating in a program known as Research Experiences for Undergraduates.

This feature will be included in each 2003-04 issue of the Record in observance of Washington University’s 150th anniversary.

Ten University students have been awarded the scholarships to study abroad during 2003-04; one student was named as an alternate.

Steven E. Petersen is congratulated by Chancellor Mark Wrighton and William A. Peck.Steven E. Petersen, a pioneering brain imaging researcher, is the first James S. McDonnell Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience.

Forty years ago this month, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.Most Americans are familiar with the “I have a dream” passage of Martin Luther King Jr.’s most famous public address. But most have forgotten his admonishments, his criticism of America and the pressures he brought to bear through his message delivered on that sweltering August day 40 years ago, says a civil rights historian at Washington University in St. Louis. “Too often, that part of his speech is ignored, subsumed to the tranquil tones of ‘I have a dream …,'” says Leslie Brown, Ph.D., assistant professor of history and of African and Afro-American studies, both in Arts & Sciences. For that reason, Brown says, four decades after the March on Washington and King’s renowned “I Have a Dream” speech, that dream is still not realized.