Aspiring architects provide planning help to two communitiesBy Ann NicholsonA St. Louis suburb and a small out-state municipality, both tackling complex design and land-use issues, recently turned for help to about 25 freshmen in the School of Architecture's new Hewlett program, "Community Building, Building Community." Fresh from a fall semester examination of the complex interrelationships among St. Louis' inner city and suburbs last fall, the students applied what they had learned about viable communities to design-based revitalization proposals for the cities of Olivette and Bourbon, Mo. |
 Canoe access Occupational therapy students Amy Friederich (left) and Jennifer Topolewski (right) install a back support in a canoe at Spanish Lake with the help of Instructor Patricia A. Schneider. The support is part of a prototype device to make canoes accessible to the disabled, developed in cooperation with the American Canoe Association and the St. Louis Wheelchair Association. |
Stuart Greenbaum appointed as Bank of America ProfessorBy Nancy BeltStuart I. Greenbaum, dean and professor of finance at the University's Olin School of Business, has been appointed the inaugural Bank of America Professor in the business school. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton appointed Greenbaum to the chair, established to honor Andrew B. Craig III upon his retirement in 1998 as chairman of NationsBank, now Bank of America. |
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Michael R. Cannon has been named executive vice chancellor of Washington University, effective June 1, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. Cannon was vice chancellor and general counsel of the University and will continue to manage those areas in his new role.
In addition, Ann B. Prenatt has been appointed executive director of human resources, reporting to Cannon, also effective June 1. She was director of employee relations at the University since 1995.
Thank you for your interest in the University's landscape, in particular the development plans for the east end of our campus and the possibilities surrounding the area immediately east of Brookings Hall. Let me say at the outset that no decisions have been made regarding the trees lining Brookings Drive, the approach to Brookings Hall, and no decision has been made regarding parking beneath the approach to Brookings Hall. However, there has been much discussion among campus planners and the Buildings and Grounds Committee of the Board of Trustees regarding overall campus development.
Verena Weber a 'University treasure'By Christine FarmerVerena Weber, described as "an ambassador extraordinaire for the College of Arts & Sciences," was awarded the third annual Gloria W. White Distinguished Service Award on Staff Day May 22. |
Meaty discovery: Neandertal bone chemistry provides food for thoughtBy Ann Nicholson
New scientific testing resolves the long-standing debate over whether the Neandertals were merely scavengers who snatched the leftovers of nature's predators or were themselves high-level carnivores with adept hunting skills. An international team of scientists, including Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has determined through new bone-chemistry analyses that the Neandertals must have feasted on meat. The team's findings will be published in the June 20 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. |
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