Her nose habitually buried in a Nancy Drew mystery, little Kathy Miller spent much of her girlhood trying to crack the case. Today, Kathryn G. Miller, PhD, professor and chair of biology in Arts & Sciences, still is playing detective. With Sherlock Holmes-like intensity, Miller studies cells the way a special agent scrutinizes a crime scene.
Sarah Fern, Outstanding Graduate in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, will graduate with honors in systems science and engineering May 20 and already has secured a job as a business technology analyst. But she also plays piano, and, is “as talented as many students that you’ll find at a conservatory,” says Seth Carlin, professor of music, director of the piano program in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences and Fern’s piano teacher.
At its spring meeting May 6, the Board of Trustees elected six new members to the board and elected officers, among other actions, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. The six electees are John D. Beuerlein, general partner of Edward Jones; Thomas J. Hillman, founder and managing partner of FTL Capital Partners LLC; Sanford C. Loewentheil, vice chairman of L+M Development Partners; Scott Rudolph, chairman of the board of NBTY Inc.; Gary M. Sumers, senior managing director of Blackstone Group; and Joyce F. Wood, owner of Wood & Associates Management Co.
Daniel E. Goldberg, MD, PhD, professor of molecular microbiology and of medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator in Medicine, was named to a four-year term as a member of the Pathogenic Eukaryotes Study Section, Center for Scientific Review of the National Institutes of Health. … Clifford Holekamp, senior lecturer in entrepreneurship at Olin […]
A protein that helps the brain develop early in life can fight the mental fuzziness induced by sleep deprivation, according to Paul Shaw, PhD, a researcher at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Jessica Davie, one of the Record’s three Outstanding Graduates in the College of Arts & Sciences, took her experiences as an inner-city high school student and began a program called Learning to Live at WUSTL. She graduates May 20 with a degree in educational studies with a minor in drama from the College of Arts & Sciences, but the Learning to Live program endures.
Washers, golf, bingo, softball and tours are just some of the many activities offered Monday, May 23, at Staff Day, a daylong celebration organized by the Office of Human Resources to recognize Danforth Campus staff members and show the university’s appreciation for their work throughout the year
Steven Perlberg, a sophomore in Arts & Sciences, and other students from the “Just Do It! Turning Your Passion into Policy” class at Washington University answer questions from John Hancock, former head of the Missouri Republican Party in the St. Louis County Council Chambers in Clayton, Mo., May 2. The students offered mock testimony on a range of issues from puppy mills to local control of the city police force to a group of civic leaders posing as a committee of the Missouri Senate.
The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present two new exhibitions beginning Friday, May 6, and running through Monday, Aug. 1. Cosima von Bonin: Character Appropriation is the first solo museum exhibition in the American Midwest for the influential conceptual artist, who lives and works in Cologne, Germany. The 2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition will feature projects by 24 graduating master of fine arts candidates in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.
Washington University in St. Louis is hosting the Midwest Several Complex Variables (SCV) May 11-14 in honor of Steven Krantz, PhD, professor of mathematics in Arts & Sciences at WUSTL and John Erik Fornaess, PhD, professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan.The conference is expected to bring to campus more than 80 mathematicians from around the country and the world.
