New chair honors Andrew Craig III

NationsBank has committed $1.5 million to Washington University to establish the NationsBank Professorship in Managerial Leadership in the John M. Olin School of Business in honor of Andrew B. Craig III, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced. Craig is the newly retired chairman of NationsBank.

Hugh McColl, chief executive officer of NationsBank, announced the gift at an April 23 retirement celebration for Craig.

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Engineer's design finds many uses

With rare exceptions, such as radio carbon-dating the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Shroud of Turin or authenticating tears or blood reported from religious icons, science and religion seldom interact. In fact, they are often at odds.

But now, a mechanical engineer at Washington University contemplating how to solve an old problem in his synagogue has literally harnessed light and reflection to enhance prayer and the synagogue experience.

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Nobuo Suga is elected to Academy of Sciences

Nobuo Suga, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts and Sciences, was elected April 28 to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest distinctions a scientist or engineer can attain.

Suga, a member of the Washington University faculty since 1969, has concentrated his career in neuroscience and has become internationally known for his studies in the neurophysiology of hearing, most notably in bats, but also in porpoises, Amazonian animals and certain insects.

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Star for Bill Gass to be added to St. Louis Walk of Fame

Embedded in the sidewalk along Delmar Boulevard in the Loop area of University City is a succession of 75 large brass stars. Each star commemorates the life and achievements of an extraordinary St. Louisan -- Ulysses S. Grant, T.S. Eliot, Josephine Baker, Scott Joplin, Chuck Berry, Tina Turner and others.

Later this month, author William H. Gass, Ph.D., will be welcomed into that honored fold. Gass, the David May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities, professor of philosophy and director of the International Writers Center in Arts and Sciences, is one of five new honorees to be inducted May 17.

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