Constitutional scholar Bell opens spring Assembly Series

Constitutional scholar Derrick Bell will present the first program in a full schedule for the Assembly Series’ 2008 spring semester. Among the Series’ speakers are scientists, legal scholars, writers and sex experts, plus a concert performed by the St. Louis Symphony. For more information on the spring calendar visit assemblyseries.wustl.edu or call 935-5285.

Honoring the Past

Mary ButkusJames Carr (right), a great-great-great grandson of James Yeatman, along with Crow Observatory assistants Kim Venta (left), a junior physics major, and Joe Bohanon, a mathematics graduate student, look at a plaque on the Yeatman Telescope honoring one of the more unique gifts in WUSTL history.

Minority Business Council honors WUSTL

Washington University received the Institution of the Year award from the St. Louis Minority Business Council (SLMBC) at its annual awards banquet Dec. 6 at the Renaissance Grand Hotel in downtown St. Louis. The SLMBC’s Minority Business Enterprise Input Committee (MBEIC), made up of 17 minority business owners, selected WUSTL as Institution of the Year. […]

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.

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….

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.