From tragedy comes good

Research into violence aided

Richard VanDorn, a second-year master's student at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, has received the first dissertation research grant awarded by the non-profit institute established in honor of Melissa Aptman, a Washington University student murdered in St. Louis just weeks before her scheduled graduation in 1995.

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WU senior named to Top Ten College Women

Chosen from a group of more than 1,000 outstanding young applicants all across America, Washington University senior Amy Caudy has been selected as one of Glamour magazine's Top Ten College Women for 1998.

Caudy was selected for her outstanding scholastic and personal achievements as well as her contributions to her school and community. She joins a highly diverse group of winners ranging from an aspiring astronaut to an economics major pursuing a career as a policy maker for the World Bank.

Caudy, a biochemistry major with a mathematics minor in Arts and Sciences, has set her sights on becoming a professor of molecular genetics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a sophomore, she received the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for science research for a two-and-a-half year project identifying the function of a regulatory stretch of DNA. In the University's Biology Outreach Program, she developed an ecology workshop for elementary school students.

Elaine A. Alexander, assistant biology outreach director, had high praise for Caudy. "She came into my life as a 1995 pre-freshman biology summer scholar and has been energizing everything she came into contact with ever since," Alexander said. "She has volunteered for every conceivable responsibility, including teaching elementary and middle school students, talking to prospective WU high school students and being a most excellent spokesperson for biology research here on campus."

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Gates address can be seen at seven sites

Tickets for the students-only "Careers for the Next Millennium" event with Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates were distributed Monday, Oct. 5.

For WU students unable to acquire a ticket to the Field House event, as well as faculty, staff, alumni and guests, the Gates talk will be broadcast to seven closed-circuit TV sites on campus, beginning at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13. Seating will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.

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