Apprenticing youths as teachers

Jerome just wasn't getting it. Uninspired by the words in his textbooks, the fifth-grader had fallen behind in his studies. He was frustrated and discouraged, disagreeable to the point that no one wanted to work with him.

Enter Treisa Gladney. A 17-year-old volunteering as an after-school tutor, Gladney took a look at Jerome's history lesson and quickly set aside the book. And then she brought the 17th century back to life. "We reenacted the entire chapter," she recalled. "I just jumped up and said, 'Stand right here -- you're the pilgrim... .'

"I just want to bring my knowledge to kids in a different way -- a way in which they understand it," Gladney said with infectious enthusiasm.

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Women's concerns

Increasing the number of women faculty in tenure-track positions on the Hilltop Campus and exploring the possibility of on-site child-care facilities are two of the recommendations made in a recently released report by Washington University's Association of Women Faculty (AWF).

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Compton, Cori Award nominations sought to honor faculty achievement

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and Arnold W. Strauss, M.D., the Alumni Professor of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine and chair of the Faculty Senate Council, invite the faculty to nominate recipients of next year's Faculty Achievement Awards.

The Faculty Senate Council and Wrighton established the annual awards, now known as the Arthur Holly Compton and the Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Awards, in spring 1998. The Compton Award is given to a distinguished member of the faculty from one of the seven Hilltop schools and the Cori Award to a faculty member from the medical school.

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Pathfinder program links disparate fields in sustainability studies

California's Mojave Desert and Hawaii's Big Island are stops along the pathway of an exciting new Washington University program called Pathfinder.

Scheduled to begin in fall 2000, Pathfinder is a program in the Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics -- also available to engineering students -- designed to help shape the academic careers of 15 of the University's top incoming freshmen.

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