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Members of Washington University’s 19 fraternity and sorority chapters gathered April 28 in College Hall in the South 40 House to recognize outstanding individual and chapter leadership in the Greek community throughout the past year.  

A new weather alerts page on the university emergency website, emergency.wustl.edu, will give the university community information about how they can sign up for weather-related emails and text-message alerts from the National Weather Service and other local news outlets. The page can be found at emergency.wustl.edu/resources/weather_alerts.html or by going to emergency.wustl.edu and clicking on the “Weather Alerts” link in the “Alerts” box.

Getting a Twitter account going for a department or organization is relatively simple, but making the most of the social media platform can be a challenge. Washington University librarians will explore how to use Twitter as a powerful publicity tool in a workshop at Olin Library from 3-4:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 21. Registration is free and is open to WUSTL students, faculty and staff as well as people from other institutions and nonprofit organizations.

Nancy Reynolds, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of History in Arts & Sciences, has received an American Council of Learned Societies’ fellowship to study the impact of Egypt’s construction of the High Dam on its culture and society.

The Optical Society (OSA) has awarded the C.E.K. Mees Medal to Lihong V. Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. The medal was given for Wang’s seminal contributions to photoacoustic tomography and Monte Carlo modeling of photon transport in biological tissues and for leadership in the international biophotonics community.

William A. Frazier, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, has received a one-year, $35,000 Pilot and Feasibility Study Grant from the Core Center for Musculoskeletal Research. … Indira Mysorekar, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, received a four-year, $600,000 grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for research titled “Occult Infections […]

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Gustav Schonfeld, MD, has died in New York City while on vacation visiting his children. The pioneering lipid researcher and former head of the Department of Medicine passed away due to complications from myelofibrosis.

Tammie Benziger, MD, PhD, assistant professor of radiology, received the 2011 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award at the 7th Annual Postdoctoral Scientific Symposium March 29 at the School of Medicine. Najla Kfoury, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in neurology, was awarded Best Poster at the poster session. Five postdoctoral researchers presented research: Ignacio Gonzalez Suarez, PhD; […]

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum is one of the oldest university museums in the country. This summer, the museum will resume its Lunch & Learn program, a popular series of lunchtime tours open to any campus department or group.