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Provost Holden Thorp, PhD, discusses the important role of the humanities in American higher education in delivering the Phi Beta Kappa/Sigma Xi Lecture for the Assembly Series earlier this month. Held annually, the lecture is part of the Phi Beta Kappa initiation ceremony. This year, 81 students were inducted into the prestigious honor society.

PB&Joy, WUSTL’s annual food drive, collected a record 16,908 pounds of nutritious, kid-friendly food for Operation Food Search this month. That’s more than double the amount collected last year.

The Community Service Office will hold a brown-bag session at noon Monday, April 28, in Danforth University Center, Room 233, to discuss ways to expand the K-12 Connections program.

Tamara King, JD, has been named associate dean of students and director of student conduct at Washington University in St. Louis. King advises students, faculty and staff on issues ranging from student behavior to academic integrity. 

Construction of a new medical records customer-service office will begin the evening of Monday, April 21, in the Center for Advanced Medicine (CAM) lobby. The office — part of Barnes-Jewish Hospital — is relocating to CAM from the first floor of Shoenberg Pavilion as part of the Campus Renewal Project.

Has this year’s unseasonably cold weather given you spring fever? Indulge the urge to abandon your desk and join Washington University in St. Louis colleagues for some fun in the sun at the annual Staff Day, Monday, May 19.

Scientists often use things in nature as a model to make new things, such as using birds as models for airplanes. One WUSTL engineer is using a basic cell as a model to make genetically engineered bacteria that would produce biofuel or pharmaceuticals. Tae Seok Moon, PhD, has received a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation for his project, “Engineering Biological Robustness through Synthetic Control.”

At a recent WUSTL Board of Trustees meeting, several faculty members were appointed with tenure, promoted with tenure or granted tenure.

Alex Tinianow will receive this year’s Harrison D. Stalker Award from the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. The award is given annually to a graduating biology major whose undergraduate career combines outstanding scientific scholarship with significant contributions in the arts and humanities.

Andrew J. White, MD, the Philip R. Dodge, MD, Scholar in Pediatrics, took an unorthodox, even explosive, route to medicine. As director of the Pediatric Residency Program, his breadth of knowledge, exuberance and quick wit help him recruit, train and inspire future pediatricians.