Of Note

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, Ph.D., was recently elected to the boards of BJC HealthCare and Barnes-Jewish Hospital.

Peter Joy, J.D., professor of law, recently received the 2001 Association of American Law Schools Clinical Section's William Pincus Award.

Kerry Back, Ph.D., associate dean for academic affairs and the Vernon W. and Marion K. Piper Professor of Financial Economics at the Olin School of Business, has been nominated by the Journal of Finance for the Smith Breeden Prize for a paper he co-authored titled, "Imperfect Competition Among Informed Traders."

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That winning look Olin School MBA students (left to right) Ayushman Hazarika, Tyler Nau, Pete Villhard, Tim Laczkowski, team captain David Baur, and coach and Olin Associate Dean Gregory J. Hutchings celebrate their first-place winnings from the Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) regionals Feb. 8-10 at the University of Texas in Austin. The Olin group competed with graduate business school teams from Purdue, Michigan, Wisconsin, Notre Dame, Indiana, Babson and Chicago universities to come up with the best evaluation of start-up businesses for potential venture capital investments. Team Olin will next compete March 26 at the VCIC nationals at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Goal of $30,000 set for A&E fund drive

Picture, for a moment, a world without art. What are you left with? Worldwide wrestling? Monster truck rallies? The XFL?

It's a terrifying image.

Fortunately for us, St. Louis has more than its share of cultural riches, from music and theatre to dance, poetry and painting. But without support, we could one day awaken to find that the arts have quietly disappeared.

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Obituary; Sophomore George Roffman, 20

Sophomore George Roffman died Feb. 20, 2001, in Dallas after a brief illness with a brain tumor.

The 20-year-old was very active in his residential college, Burton M. Wheeler House. Roffman also served as a student member of the board of directors of the St. Louis Hillel and was in involved in the Hillel's Service Partnership, a community service group. His freshman year, Roffman wrote for Student Life, contributing several editorial columns to the publication. He had not yet declared a major.

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Robert W. Sussman honored as AAAS fellow

By Donna Kettenbach

Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D., professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has become a fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the highest recognition the organization bestows.

Sussman was honored for his "important contributions to integrating the fields of anthropology through research and training in primate behavior." He was also elected a council delegate from the AAAS's Section on Anthropology.

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