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.
Robert L. Payton, vice chancellor for university development from 1960-65 and vice chancellor for planning from 1965-66, died May 19, 2011, at a skilled nursing facility in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 84.
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.
At the invitation of an esteemed Chinese researcher, Professor T.R. Kidder, an authority on river basin geoarchaeology, helps uncover the wonders of a remote farming village buried by the Yellow River some 2,000 years ago.
Armed with an engineering background, Anne Marie Knott, professor of strategy, brings a precision to her research. She recently created a tool to measure the effectiveness of a firm’s R&D expenditures — one counter to long-standing strategic theories.
Recovered letters of famed mathematician William Chauvenet, Washington University’s second chancellor, shed new light on his life and tenure at the university.
A partner at Proskauer Rose, LLP, alumnus Chuck Ortner has been described as a “legendary music expert [and] one of the premier lawyers in the copyright world.”
Michael and Ursula Emery McClure, Rome Prize-winning architect-educators, study Louisiana’s unique culture and geography and apply learned principles to their global work.
Simonsen, Arts & Sciences Class of ’14, is one of three inaugural members of the McLeod Scholars Program, a newly established undergraduate scholarship endowment.
Fans, musicians, journalists and researchers can see how the courts dealt with this question and nearly any other legal issue involving the music industry at The Discography Legal Encyclopedia of Popular Music, accessible through thediscography.org.
