Law school honors six outstanding alumni

The School of Law will recog- nize four outstanding alumni and two outstanding young alumni at its 28th annual Distinguished Law Alumni Awards Dinner Friday, Oct. 13, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel St. Louis.

Those receiving 2000 Distinguished Law Alumni Awards are: Alan J. Dixon (L.L.B. '49), Robert O. Hetlage (A.B. '52, J.D. '54), Margaret Howard (J.D. '75, M.S.W. '75) and Reuben M. Morriss III (J.D. '64). This year's Distinguished Young Law Alumni Awards will be presented to Catherine D. Perry (J.D. '80) and Rodney W. Sippel (J.D. '81).

The Distinguished Law Alumni Awards honor those who have obtained distinction in their professional or academic careers. Honorees share the characteristics of leadership, progressive thinking, high standards, uncompromising integrity, commitment, courage and confidence. The Distinguished Young Law Alumni Awards honor graduates from the law school within the past 25 years. The recipients exemplify achievement and commitment to the ideals embodied in a Washington University law school education.

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Campus Authors: The Erotic Whitman

(University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000)

Vivian R. Pollak also is the author of "Dickinson: The Anxiety of Gender" (1984) and editor of "New Essays on James' 'Daisy Miller' and 'The Turn of the Screw" (1992) and "A Poet's Parents: The Courtship Letters of Emily Norcross and Edward Dickinson" (1988). She currently serves as president of the Association of Women Faculty

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Introducing new faculty members

Shelly E. Sakiyama-Elbert, Ph.D., joins the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science as an assistant professor.

Donald L. Elbert, Ph.D., joins the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the egineering school as an assistant professor.

Christine R. Johnson, Ph.D., joins the Department of History in Arts & Sciences as an assistant professor.

Nargis Virani, Ph.D., joins the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures in Arts & Sciences as an assistant professor.

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Of Note

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 economics...

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.

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