Trustees grant faculty promotions, tenure
At recent Board of Trustees meetings, the following faculty members were promoted with tenure, appointed with tenure or granted tenure effective July 1, 2007, unless otherwise noted.
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Wolff commits $20 million for biomedical research
St. Louis businesswoman and philanthropist Edith L. Wolff has made a commitment of $20 million to support biomedical research at the School of Medicine. The funds will establish the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Institute, which will support biomedical research projects that lead to the prevention, treatment and cure of disease.
Of note
Naomi Lebowitz, Ph.D.,
Brian Carpenter, Ph.D.,
Ruth Clark, Ph.D.,
and more….
Randall, research patient coordinator at Siteman, 52
Gwendolyn Randall, research patient coordinator at Siteman Cancer Center, died Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2008, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital of complications from cancer. She was 52.
Undergraduates get glimpse of pediatric emergency room
Robert BostonAveri Leahy, a junior in the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research Associates’ Program (PEMRAP), talks with Jan D. Luhmann, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics and a PEMRAP co-director, in the St. Louis Children’s Hospital Emergency Department. Students in the PEMRAP program check the admissions computer for patients who may qualify for clinical studies.
Campus Events to honor Martin Luther King Jr.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivering his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.”More Than a Dream…Living the Dream” is the theme of the University’s 21st annual celebration honoring Martin Luther King Jr. at 7 p.m. Jan. 21 in Graham Chapel.
Chancellor Wrighton named Citizen of the Year
Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton has been named Citizen of the Year, an award sponsored by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Wrighton was chosen by a committee of past winners of the award and was profiled in the Jan. 6 issue of the Post-Dispatch.
WUSTL, Enterprise Rent-A-Car offer car-sharing program
Courtesy photoWashington University Parking & Transportation Services and Enterprise Rent-A-Car have partnered to bring WeCar, a car-sharing program, to the Danforth Campus.
PAD to present “The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek” Jan. 24-27
David Kilper/WUSTL Photo ServicesThe Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present Naomi Wallace’s “The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek,” a poignant and erotically charged coming-of-age tale Jan. 24-27 in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre in the Mallinckrodt Student Center.
Latin jazz next up for Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series
The marriage between jazz and tango was virtually unheard of 30 years ago — until pianist Pablo Ziegler burst onto the music scene, seamlessly combining the sultry tango rhythms with the energetic spontaneity of jazz. At 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, the Pablo Ziegler Quintet for New Tango — joined by special guest Claudia Acuña […]