Washington People

Mary Ann Dzuback, Ph.D., director and associate professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, associate professor of education and adjunct associate professor of history, all in Arts & Sciences, is a gifted teacher and visionary leader.

Amy Waterman, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, is tackling a vexing health problem: There are not enough kidneys for transplants, but patients with kidney failure who choose transplants over dialysis have longer, healthier lives.

Serendipity is a word that Kathleen K. Bucholz, Ph.D., uses a lot as she describes her career path. She didn’t really start out to be a psychiatric epidemiologist or to study how genes and environment intersect to contribute to problems with alcohol. In fact, for much of college, science was an afterthought.

Henry S. Webber has spent a great deal of his time evaluating and planning for the physical development of Washington University’s campuses. As he works to shape WUSTL’s future, he also looks for guidance from its past.

Professor Bob Deusinger’s love of mechanics, coupled with an affinity for science and curiosity into how the human body moves, led him to a doctorate in biomechanics and a successful career as a physical therapist for more than 30 years at the School of Medicine.

Physics professor Stuart Solin, Ph.D., a “classic physics thinker” according to colleagues, lives by the scientific code of honesty and respect for evidence.

Photo by David KilperRobert Blankenship, Ph.D., the Lucille P. Markey Distinguished Professor of Arts & Sciences, seeks to better understand one of the basics of life on earth: photosynthesis, the transformation of light, carbon dioxide and water into chemical energy in plants and some bacteria.