This year, the Spector Prize was shared by two recipients: Adeetee Bhide and Matthew Leach. Bhide and Leach were nominated by their research mentors for their outstanding work in research and the substantial contributions they made to their field of work.
(From left) Feshman Carly Waldman and senior Alex Kiles, interns in the Office of Admissions, collaborate while preparing materials for the university’s Multicultural Celebration Weekend, which begins Thursday, April 14. During Celebration Weekend, the WUSTL community offers admitted students the opportunity to meet current students and faculty and attend classes and student group meetings.
Ibe Oteh (right) receives a wrapped silver platter from Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton April 6 in recognition of his 25 years of service to WUSTL. The 2011 25th Anniversary Reception honored Oteh and 108 other faculty and staff members for their quarter-century of dedication to Washington University.
Since the 1940s, Washington University psychiatrists have played a key role in the evolution of the field’s premiere diagnostic manual and other research. Today, the Department of Psychiatry has ambitious plans on the horizon.
Energy conservation, gardening and water conservation, recycling and transportation will be the focus of an Earth Day celebration from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesday, April 20 at four stations in and around the School of Medicine.
From literature, philosophy and ethics to history, law and musicology, the humanities are central to our understanding of ourselves, our communities and the larger world around us. On Wednesday, April 27, the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences will present talks by Richard J. Franke, founder of the Chicago Humanities Festival, and Geoffrey Galt Harpham, president and director of the National Humanities Center, as part of “Celebrating the Humanities Day.”
WUSTL will test its outdoor warning sirens on the Danforth Campus between noon and 12:30 p.m. Monday, April 18. The test will take place unless there is the potential for severe weather that day or some other emergency is occurring at that time.
The George Warren Brown School of Social Work awarded one Distinguished Faculty Award and five Distinguished Alumni Awards during its annual alumni awards celebration April 5 at Steinberg Hall Auditorium. Two of the alumni also were selected as outstanding “Graduates of the Last Decade.”
Civil rights leader Julian Bond makes a point during a panel discussion in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge that followed his Assembly Series lecture, titled “Post Racial America: Fact or Fiction?” held April 1 in Graham Chapel. Bond’s Assembly Series talk was the keynote address for the Chancellor’s Graduate Fellowship Program 20th Anniversary Conference and Alumni Reunion, held on campus March 31- April 1.
The Washington University Bouchet Honor Society Selection Committee chose its fifth class of Bouchet Fellows. The 2011 Bouchet Fellows are Pascale Guiton, a doctoral student in the Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program in the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, and Natecia Williams, a doctoral student in the Neuroscience Program in the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences.