 Bookmaking Senior art major Alyssa Naucas from Chicago (left) demonstrates bookmaking techniques at the University's Kranzberg Studio for the Illustrated Book to Julia Copeland, a visiting high school student from Greensboro, N.C. Copeland was among prospective students attending an Art Exploration Weekend Oct. 1-3 to tour the School of Art and meet with faculty and students. |
New medical chairs established, filledFour professorships are first of 12 in program with Children's HospitalBy Diane Duke WilliamsFour named professorships, supported by a $6 million dedicated endowment, are being announced as part of a new joint program between St. Louis Children's Hospital, part of BJC Health System, and Washington University School of Medicine. The goal of the program is to solidify an already strong relationship between the medical school and hospital and, through a combined effort, establish 12 new pediatric professorships at the Washington University Medical Center by the year 2008. Named professorships provide perpetual funding to help conduct research, support teaching and attract and retain the best and brightest physician/scientists. |
'American Anthropologist'Robert Sussman takes prestigious journal's helm, focuses inaugural issue on race and racismBy Cynthia Georges |
Robert Sussman, Ph.D., new editor of the journal The American Anthropologist, is still amazed and bothered by the absence of an anthropologist on the President's Initiative on Race, an advising panel that recently reported to the White House. Launched in June 1997, the program addresses one of the nation's perennial concerns: race relations. "People seem to have forgotten that anthropologists have been studying race for decades," said Sussman, professor of anthropology in Arts and Sciences. "No other field has experts on both the cultural and biological aspects of race. The initiative should have included anthropologists able to discuss racism and the concept of race in America." The president's oversight, however, gave Sussman a clear vision. Anthropology has much to say about modern problems, as well as about those related to people and events of the past. Why not showcase the latest, most provocative research on race and racism in his inaugural issue as the editor-in-chief of the American Anthropologist? What promises to be a landmark issue of the American Anthropological Association's (AAA) flagship journal will be published in November. A distinguished group of contributing scholars, including guest editor Faye Harrison of the University of South Carolina, defend their positions on topics ranging from Afrocentrism to the divisions of humans into biological races. The results, Sussman said, point to important conclusions. Two Washington University faculty members -- Alan R. Templeton, Ph.D., and Gerald L. Early, Ph.D. -- are among the contributing scholars. A third, Linda Sussman, Ph.D., research associate in anthropology, teams with her husband as the journal's associate editor. |
Students, graduate receive Shocklee awards |
| Two Washington University students and a recent graduate have been honored by the Interfaith Partnership of Metropolitan St. Louis with the group's inaugural Monsignor John A. Shocklee Award for the Work of Social Justice. The awards, which recognize young people who have demonstrated leadership in social justice initiatives, were presented to Mara Baum, a senior majoring in architecture; Amy Finnegan, a junior majoring in Spanish and political science in Arts and Sciences; and David Kralik, who received bachelor's degrees in math and physics in Arts and Sciences in May 1998. Describing the awardees as "role models who have demonstrated their campus leadership for social justice through their service to the community," the partnership said that the students were chosen because of:
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