Amy D. Waterman, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, has received a three-year, $899.663 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration for research titled “Increasing Living Donation in Transplant-Eligible Dialysis Patients.” … Gerhild Williams, Ph.D., chair of the German Department in Arts & Sciences and the David M. […]
Addressing poverty, famine, infectious diseases, international conflict and other world problems is the mission of a new global education and research initiative announced today by Washington University in St. Louis and a partnership of top foreign universities and multinational corporations. Launched with a $10 million endowment commitment from John F. McDonnell and the JSM Charitable Trust, the McDonnell International Scholars Academy creates a growing worldwide network of scholars, researchers and business and governmental leaders. Designed to nurture future global leaders, the program will provide all-expenses-paid tuition, room, board and travel for exceptional graduate students selected from partner universities around the world. Believed to be the first of its kind in the United States, the program will bring foreign students to the United States to study the sciences, reversing a decline that began after 9/11. The program also will help countries of the world collaborate on critical issues including the environment, medicine and energy and food production and help the United States maintain its place as a world leader in innovation and invention. John C. Danforth, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and three-term member of the U.S. Senate will chair the Academy’s external advisory committee. He joined Washington University Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, McDonnell and other program founders in announcing the initiative at a news conference held today in New York.
In addition to a cross-disciplinary Washington University faculty steering committee, an external advisory committee headed by John C. Danforth, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former U.S. senator from Missouri, advises Wrighton, Wertsch and the McDonnell Academy.
Addressing poverty, famine, infectious diseases, international conflict and other world problems is the mission of a new global education and research initiative announced today by Washington University in St. Louis and a partnership of top foreign universities and multinational corporations. Launched with a $10 million endowment commitment from John F. McDonnell and the JSM Charitable Trust, the McDonnell International Scholars Academy creates a growing worldwide network of scholars, researchers and business and governmental leaders.
McNaughtonAppointed to his current role in 2005, Mr. McNaughton is responsible for driving innovation and growth internationally, and oversees strategically important corporate relationships. He serves on the boards of Samsung Corning Company, Ltd. and Samsung Corning Precision Glass Company, Ltd., and is proposed as a director of Eurokera S.N.C. and Cormetech, Inc
Dr. Das is a founder of TranSwitch Corporation in Shelton, CT, which started operation in 1989, and is the president and CEO of the company.
DasPrior to TranSwitch Corporation, he held various positions, including president of Spectrum Digital Corporation, a telecommunications equipment company, where he worked from 1986 through August of 1988. Before joining Spectrum, he held various executive positions, including director, Applied Technology Division of ITT Corporation’s Advanced Technology Center in Shelton, CT.