Vol. 24 No. 22 March 2, 2000

'Textbook case'

Faculty and University score technology transfer triumph

By Tony Fitzpatrick

Cisco Systems Inc. has announced a definitive agreement to acquire a company formed two years ago by three Washington University computer scientists for Cisco common stock worth $355 million.

Cisco announced its acquisition of Growth Networks Inc. Feb. 16. With an office in suburban Brentwood, Mo., and headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., Growth Networks is recognized as having the patented technology and capable design team to become a market leader in components for Internet routers and multiservice switching systems, enabling faster and more efficient data communication.

The company is the brainchild of Jonathan S. Turner, Ph.D., the Henry Edwin Sever Professor of Engineering; Jerome R. Cox, Sc.D., the Harold B. and Adelaide G. Welge Professor of Computer Science; and Guru M. Parulkar, Ph.D., professor of computer science.

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Jerome R. Cox, Sc.D. (left), Guru M. Parulkar, Ph.D.
(center) and Jonathan S. Turner, Ph.D., shown here in a
Bryan Hall lab, have just scored a technology transfer coup
in the sale of their computer switching and routing firm to
Cisco Systems Inc.

Only one rule: No sitting! Sophomores Rehan Hasan
and Alvina Kittur "cut a rug" Saturday, Feb. 26, at the first
annual Dance Marathon, held in the Athletic Complex Rec
Gym. The 12-hour marathon, sponsored by the junior
honorary Chimes, raised more than $25,000 for the
Children's Miracle Network of Greater St. Louis. Helping
to eclipse the goal by more than $10,000 were 113 dancers
who registered for the entire marathon and another 200 who
came in and paid hourly to dance. Students from Fontbonne
College also joined in the cooperative effort.

Exploring new links

Mellon grant will foster interdisciplinary work

By Liam Otten Washington University has received an $810,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation -- the largest in the University's history for combined studies in the humanities and social sciences in Arts & Sciences. The grant will establish a postdoctoral fellowship program, support a series of seminars and lectures and foster undergraduate education.

The new program, Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry, will be launched in fall 2001. During the five subsequent years, it will support a total of 14 two-year postgraduate fellowships for young scholars from universities in this country and abroad.

The program was conceived by Steven Zwicker, Ph.D., the Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities and professor of English in Arts & Sciences. Zwicker previously directed a series of Mellon Dissertation Seminars that served as a model for the new program.

"This new postdoctoral program is organized around the principle of interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching," Zwicker explained.

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Smile! Study reveals milestone in development of gender roles

By Gerry Everding

From kindergarten to college, from generation to generation, the annual yearbook photo session has become an icon of the American school experience, an awkward, stomach-churning rite of passage captured in a flash and preserved for the ages in wallet size.

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