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Focused on the community

The Washington University Medical Center Redevelopment Corp. recently received a What’s Right with the Region award from Focus St. Louis in the category of promoting strong communities.

Quinn to keynote 2010 Brown School diploma ceremony

Jane Quinn, assistant executive director for community schools with the Children’s Aid Society (CAS), will deliver the keynote address during the Brown School diploma ceremony at 11 a.m. Friday, May 21, in Graham Chapel.

Haoyi Wang: 2010 Outstanding Graduate in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Haoyi Wang, PhD, helped develop a technique for mapping all the genes in a cell that respond to a particular genetic switch while earning his doctorate from WUSTL. Wang is the Record‘s 2010 Outstanding Graduate in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.

Medicine & Health

Four Faculty Diversity Scholars named at the School of Medicine

Four faculty have been recruited to Washington University School of Medicine through its Faculty Diversity Scholars Program.

Gifts of a well-flavored man

The three witches on the stormy heath had no trouble foretelling Macbeth’s kingly future. But seven or eight decades ago, those hags would have had a harder time choosing one storyline for a young Lawrence Kahn. He had a rich and complex life ahead of him.

Michele Tsai: 2010 Outstanding Graduate in the College of Arts & Sciences

Michelle Tsai, who was born with a congenital heart defect, aims to make a career out of helping children with chronic medical conditions. Getting a dual degree May 21 in psychology and in philosophy-neuroscience-psycholo, she has been chosen by the Record an Outstanding Graduate in the College of Arts & Sciences

Grace Van Voorhis: 2010 Outstanding Graduate in the College of Arts & Sciences

Language is a key that opens doors to other cultures and adventures at home and abroad for Spanish and Latin American studies major Grace Van Voorhis, one of the Record‘s 2010 Outstanding Graduates in the College of Arts & Sciences.

Prestigious national scholarships awarded to four undergraduates

Four Arts & Sciences undergraduates have been awarded prestigious national scholarships. Three are receiving the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and one the Morris K. Udall Scholarship for the 2010-11 academic year.

Wong receives Isserman prize

Senior Stephanie Wong has been awarded this year’s Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isserman Prize. The Isserman prize recognizes a WUSTL student who has made a significant contribution in leadership and service to ecumenical or interfaith activities, both on campus and in the wider community.

Arts & Culture

Sam Fox School announces Steedman Fellowship

Toronto architect Nevena Krilic has won Washington University’s 2010 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design Competition. Sponsored by the College of Architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, the biennial competition is open to young architects from around the world and carries a $30,000 first place award to support study and research abroad — the largest such award in the United States.