PeckThe National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine has named William A. Peck, M.D., a member of a national committee that will address ways to redesign health insurance benefits, payment and performance improvement programs.
Millions of people with severe tinnitus currently have little hope for quick relief from the unrelenting ringing or buzzing noises the disorder produces. But WUSM scientists suspect a drug already approved for seizure disorders and chronic nerve pain also can help silence the noises that plague tinnitus patients.
Manfred Pernice, “Untitled (Bicycle Rack),” 2002.The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis is recipient of a $125,000 Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award. The award will support Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, the inaugural loan exhibition in the museum’s new facilities, scheduled to open in Fall 2006.
Maki & Associates, TokyoWashington University’s planned Sam Fox Arts Center.A $500,000 gift from Emily Rauh Pulitzer, founder and president of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, has established the first permanent endowment fund for the Sam Fox Arts Center at Washington University in St. Louis.
Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., and Paul G. Kirk, Jr., co-chairmen of the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), today announced moderators for the 2004 general election debates. The moderator for the debate to be held Friday, October 8 on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis will be Charles Gibson, Co-Anchor of ABC News “Good Morning America”.
MacKeithPeter MacKeith has been appointed associate director of the Sam Fox Arts Center at Washington University in St. Louis. MacKeith, who also serves as associate dean for the School of Architecture, will be responsible for public programming; collaborative teaching and research; and organization of the planned Whitaker Foundation Learning Lab.
The Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, a non-profit organization working to protect the rights and welfare of research participants, recently awarded full accreditation to Washington University in St. Louis, one of only a few organizations in the nation to gain this recognition.
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