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Introducing new faculty members

Yehuda Ben-Shahar, Ph.D., Peter Benson, Ph.D., Pamela Jakiela, Ph.D., John Klein, Ph.D., Robert F. Krueger, Ph.D., Claire Solomon, Ph.D., Roy Sorensen, Ph.D., and Margit Tavits, Ph.D.

The Ploughman Poet

Photo by David KilperWorkers admire their efforts to restore the statue of Scottish poet Robert Burns, located on the southeast side of campus adjacent to Bixby Hall. The eight-foot-tall bronze statue by Robert Ingersoll Aitken is part of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum collection.

Of note

Da-Ren Chen, Ph.D., Philip E. Cryer, M.D., W. Michael Dunne, Ph.D., Sarah Finger, Donna B. Jeffe, Ph.D., and more…

Luce Foundation grant underwrites study of ancient Chinese landscapes

Gwen Bennett, Ph.D., assistant professor of art history and archaeology in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $335,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation Initiative on East and Southeast Asian Archaeology and Early History. The grant will allow Bennett to expand her ongoing fieldwork into the ancient landscape and settlements of the Chengdu Plain […]

A fitting tribute

Photo by Mary ButkusMichael Greenfield, J.D., the George Alexander Madill Professor of Contracts and Commercial Law, and his wife, Claire Halpern, cut the ribbon during the dedication of the Greenfield Classroom in Seigle Hall Oct. 8.

Signs of the times

Photo by Mary ButkusChancellor Mark S. Wrighton addresses students participating in the fall Undergraduate Research Symposium Oct. 25 in the Danforth University Center.
Medicine & Health

Grant to test strategies to eliminate cancer disparities

Disadvantaged and minority populations are more likely to be diagnosed with and die from cancer than other groups in the United States. A five-year, $8.6 million grant to Washington University will explore how improved information and referral systems can help eliminate these disparities.