SansaloneMary J. Sansalone, Ph.D., professor of structural engineering at Cornell University, will become dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis on July 1, 2006, according to Mark S. Wrighton, chancellor.
John MajorThe Right Honorable Sir John Major, former prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and a leading authority on the changing global landscape, has been selected to give the 2006 Commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. The university’s 145th Commencement will begin at 8:30 a.m. May 19 in Brookings Quadrangle. Major’s talk is titled “The Changing World.”
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The biology department’s Tiffany Knight performed an exhaustive global analysis of more than 1,000 pollination studies that included 166 different plant species.
Philosophy and psychology professors from schools around the country will discuss evolution’s impact on morality, moral reasoning and the psychology of happiness.
As part of a State Department program, the visitors made presentations to law school faculty and students on legal education and the legal profession in Nepal.
Faculty who conduct research in diabetes and endocrinology may apply for grant funding from the Diabetes Research and Training Center in the School of Medicine.
Kelle H. Moley, M.D., has been named vice chair for basic science research and director of the Division of Basic Science Research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.