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Flance, emeritus professor of clinical medicine, 98
I. Jerome Flance, MD, a renowned physician, educator and pulmonary disease specialist at Washington University School of Medicine since the 1940s, died Friday, April 2, 2010, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He was 98.
How a WUSTL field team narrowly escaped stranding on Elephant Island, the South Shetland island made famous by the expedition of the Endurance
As told by WUSTL alumna Stacey Robertson Maurice And then John Evans, the brave man that he is, walked out on the spit to one side of the cove, the waves crashing over his legs. He got out far enough that he was past the worst of the breakers, and then the Zodiac with the […]
Notables
Of note Hugh Macdonald, the Avis H. Blewett Professor of Music in Arts & Sciences, received a gold medal from La Renaissance Française April 1 at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C. Macdonald was honored for his scholarship on 19th-century French composers Hector Berlioz, Jules Massenet, Edouard Lalo and Emmanuel Chabrier as well as his […]
$3.7 million trial uses genes to balance risks, benefits of blood thinner
Virgils receive 2010 Harris Community Service Award
The Jane and Whitney Harris Community Service Award was presented to Geraldine and Robert Virgil for their outstanding contributions to the St. Louis region.
‘Mentoring Matters’ to be addressed by Nancy Giles for Assembly Series
Social commentator, actress and comedian Nancy Giles will explore why “Mentoring Matters” for the Assembly Series at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 15 in Graham Chapel. The talk is free and open to the public.
Greenberg crowned Mr. Wash U
Senior Zach Greenberg was selected Mr. Wash U April 1 at Edison Theatre. He beat out 16 contestants in the yearlong, annual event that raises money for the charity City Faces.
Gov. Nixon visits WUSTL
Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and Olin Dean Mahendra Gupta, PhD, welcome Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (center) to campus April 7. WUSTL was the third and last stop on the governor’s tour through the state to promote his budget.
Poet Kerri Webster to read April 15
Poet Kerri Webster, who is completing a three-year appointment as visiting writer in residence in The Writing Program in the Department of English, will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 15. Webster is the author of the collection We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone, as well as a pair of chapbooks: Rowing Through Fog and Psalm Project.