January 26, 2001

The Record

 

Undergraduate tuition increases 4.9% for 2001-02; room-and-board charges up 6.3%

Undergraduate tuition will total $25,700 for the 2001-02 academic year --a $1,200 (4.9 percent) increase from this year.

In addition, the required student activity fee will be $257 and a new annual universal health fee of $420 will go into effect, said Barbara A. Feiner, vice chancellor for finance.

Room-and-board charges will be $8,670, an increase of $514 (6.3 percent) over this year's charges for newer housing. Last year's charges were $8,156.

 

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Brown-bag lunches address range of topics

By Ann Nicholson

Faculty and graduate students with an interest in topics relating to labor, households, health care, law and social welfare are invited to take part in a series of Monday brown-bag luncheon seminars during the spring semester.

Now in its fifth year, the "Work, Families and Public Policy" series features one-hour presentations on current research interests of faculty from across campus and from other universities. The presentations, held in Eliot Hall Room 300, run from noon to 1 p.m. and are followed by a half-hour discussion period.

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Call for nominations: Gloria W. White Distinguished Service Award

Nominations are due Feb. 2 for the Gloria W. White Distinguished Service Award, recognizing a staff member for exceptional effort and contributions resulting in the betterment of the University. This annual honor was named for White, who retired in 1997 as vice chancellor for human resources after 30 years with the University.

A committee will review the candidates and select an employee to receive the $1,000 award during the May 21 Staff Day celebration on the Hilltop Campus.

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Introducing new faculty members

The following are among the new faculty members on the Hilltop Campus. Others will be introduced periodically in this space.

Andrew Martin joins the Department of Political Science in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor.

Jeremy Gibson-Brown joins the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor.

Sophia E. Hayes joins the Department of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences as assistant professor.

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Minds at work Celishia Bussey, a freshman in Arts & Sciences, tutors fifth-grader Liz Wright as part of the Each One Teach One program. A collaboration with the St. Louis Public Schools and the Voluntary Interdistrict Choice Corporation, Each One Teach One tutors students from kindergarten through 12th grade who live in the city of St. Louis. Over 80 student tutors from the University participate in the program, held at the Stephens Middle Community Education Center. For more information about the program, e-mail eoto@rescomp.wustl.edu.

 




Compton and Cori Faculty Achievement awards nominations due

Nominations for the University's annual Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award and the Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award are due Feb. 1.

The Faculty Senate Council and Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton established the awards in spring 1998. The Compton Award is given to a member of the Hilltop faculty, and the Cori Award goes to a faculty member from the School of Medicine. Winners will be announced at the Chancellor's Gala on April 21.

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Obituary: Susan Sullivan, former assistant dean

Susan Adora Moxon Sullivan, Ph.D., former assistant dean at the School of Law, died of ovarian cancer Jan. 10, 2001, at North Memorial Hospice in Minneapolis, Minn. She was 51.

Sullivan was the wife of E. Thomas Sullivan, J.D., formerly a professor of law and associate dean here and now dean of the University of Minnesota Law School.

Susan Sullivan served in the School of Law from 1983-89 as assistant dean for placement and then assistant dean for external affairs. "Susan was an extraordinary friend and professional, a person who was respected and admired by her peers in career services throughout the country, by her colleagues at the law school, and most of all by the people she really served --the students," said David M. Becker, J.D., law school associate dean for external relations and the Joseph H. Zumbalen Professor of Law and of Property.

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Student proposal Jo Noero, the Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture (left), and Cynthia Weese, dean of the School of Architecture (right), examine graduate student Kwanghyun Baek's proposed academic building. Noero and Peter MacKeith (center) co-taught the semester-long studio "Contemporary Architecture and the University: Studies in Progressive Contextualism," which examined the role of contemporary design in historically sensitive environments.





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