Honors

One of the world's leading cave archaeologists and an authority on protein structure and folding will receive Washington University's second annual faculty achievement awards. The selection was announced Saturday, April 15, at the Chancellor's Gala in Holmes Lounge. The awards will be conferred at a public event in the fall.

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Padmanabhan named to new chair

V. "Paddy" Padmanabhan, Ph.D., was installed as the first John K. Wallace Jr. and Ellen A. Wallace Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the John M. Olin School of Business in an April 12 ceremony in Simon Hall. The professorship was made possible by a recent commitment of $2 million from the Wallaces.

"John and Ellen Wallace are among the University's most generous and supportive friends," said Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, announcing the commitment. "Establishing a distinguished professorship is one of the many meaningful ways in which they've shown their long-standing devotion to the University and the Olin School."

Stuart I. Greenbaum, dean of the business school, also expressed his gratitude for the new professorship. "I'm delighted that the Wallaces' generosity allows us to honor outstanding faculty such as Paddy Padmanabhan," Greenbaum said. "Such gifts help the Olin School attract and retain world-class faculty and contribute to its rise as one of the nation's premier business schools."

Padmanabhan was on the faculty of Stanford University, Northwestern University and the European international business school INSEAD in France before joining the faculty here as professor of marketing in 1998. He teaches customer-focused marketing management, services marketing, advanced services marketing and contemporary marketing channels and pursues research interests in those areas. He has been published in many scholarly journals, including Marketing Science and Management Science.

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WU shines with Trumans; all four entries are finalists

Washington University is one of only seven universities to place all four of its applicants -- the maximum allowed -- as finalists in the competition for the prestigious Harry S. Truman Scholarships. Two, Arts & Sciences juniors Sarah Johnson and Kayje Booker, went on to win the awards. Applicants included students from 311 institutions nationwide.

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Life's origins

Washington University geologists have developed new theoretical calculations about how life might have arisen from volcanic gases on Earth, Mars and other celestial bodies.

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