Notables for Oct. 9

Of note

Harold R. Schreiber, D.D.S., clinical instructor in the Department of Otolaryngology in the School of Medicine, has been selected by the Greater St. Louis Dental Society to receive its Gold Medal Award during the annual meeting of the society's Midcontinent Dental Congress. É

Robert E. Thach, Ph.D., dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and professor of biology, recently became chair-elect of the Graduate Record Examinations Board. This is a unit of the Educational Testing Service that sponsors tests for graduate schools' admissions, comparable to the Scholastic Achievement Test for undergraduates. The term of office, which began effective July 1, is for three years (as chair-elect, then chair, then past chair). É

Kevin Z. Truman, Ph.D., chair of civil engineering, and Shirley J. Dyke, Ph.D., assistant professor of civil engineering, recently received approval from the National Science Foundation Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement program for a proposal titled "Instructional Shake Tables: A Cooperative Effort in Earthquake Engineering Education." Twenty-three universities drawn from the three national earthquake centers (Mid-America Earthquake Center, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center and the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research) will participate. Each school will get a bench-scale seismic shaking table and will develop an experiment to be implemented as an undergraduate laboratory in earthquake engineering. The program will be headquartered and managed at Washington University. A Web site is being developed to disseminate information on the program to a broad audience. É

Speaking of

John Drobak, J.D., professor of law and professor of economics in Arts & Sciences, recently gave the keynote speech at an award ceremony honoring the Czech Republic's "Manager of 2000." The Prague-based newspaper "Lidove Noviny" sponsored a survey to select the award winners and published Drobak's speech on "Education of Managers: Its Legal and Economic Aspects." The speech included references to research by Douglass North, Ph.D., the Spencer T. Olin Professor and professor of economics in Arts & Sciences, and Murray L. Weidenbaum, Ph.D., the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor and professor of economicsÉ

Anthony Kulczycki, M.D., associate professor of medicine and of molecular biology, spoke on "Infant Colic: New Paradigms and a Novel Intervention Strategy" at a recent conference on pediatric gastrointestinal disorders in Montreal. His presentation reviewed work published and in press with co-author Diana Estep, R.N., clinical research coordinator, on colic in both formula-fed and breast-fed infants.

To press

Stanton H. Braude, Ph.D., lecturer in biology in Arts & Sciences, recently had an article published in Behavioral Ecology. His article, titled "Dispersal and New Colony Formation in Wild Naked Mole-rats: Evidence Against Inbreeding as the System of Mating," was based on the past 14 years of field work in Kenya. The next two years of the ongoing project will be funded by the Saint Louis Zoo, which obtained their first colony of nake mole-rats last year. The animals are on display in the children's zoo.