Volume 25, No. 30, May 11, 2001

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton (foreground) thanks the nearly 200 administrators, members of the Board of Trusteesand other gurests gathered at Harbison House May 4 to celebrate reaching the $1 billion mark.

Campaign tops $1 billion

By Marvin Meinz

With a little more than three years left on the original schedule for the Campaign for Washington University, more than $1 billion --the original goal of the campaign --has already been committed.

The campaign, publicly announced in September 1998 with $541 million in hand, now has gifts and commitments totaling $1.01 billion toward a revised goal of $1.3 billion.

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Board of Trustees elects officers, new members

By M. Fredric Volkmann

Four new members were elected to the University's Board of Trustees during its May 4 meeting, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. They are: Santanu Das, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of TranSwitch Corporation; Steven H. Lipstein, president and chief executive officer of BJC HealthCare; Hendrik A. Verfaillie, president and chief executive officer of Monsanto Company; and Robert L. Virgil Jr., general principal of Edward Jones.

In other action, the trustees elected officers for 2001-02. Elected chairman of the board is John F. McDonnell, retired chairman of the board of the McDonnell Douglas Corporation. Named vice chairmen are William H. Danforth, chancellor emeritus of the University, and David W. Kemper, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Commerce Bancshares Inc.

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3 University scholars elected to high honors

By Tony Fitzpatrick, Donna Kettenbach
and Gila Z. Reckess

Three University scholars have been elected to prominent scientific academies.

Roy Curtiss III, Ph.D., the George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences, and Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D., the Alumni Professor and head of the Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology at the School of Medicine, were elected May 1 to membership in the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton was elected April 29 to membership in the American Philosophical Society (APS).

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Commencement Week Calendar

Commencement of the Class of 2001 will be on Friday, May 18 at 8:30 a.m.

A complete listing of events is available by clicking here.

Ted Ruger, J.D., associate professor of law, and third-year law student Trisha Yukawa confer with U.S. Magistrate Judge Mary Ann Medler in the federal courthouse in downtown St. Louis. Yukawa was one of eight students in the law school's new U.S. attorney clinic.

U.S. attorney clinic offers novel insight

By Deb Aronson

Not every course at the University requires a background security check from the FBI. But for School of Law students the rigorous FBI check was a small price to pay for a chance to participate in the inner workings of the U.S. attorney's office.

Students in the law school's newest clinic, held in the U.S. attorney's office in downtown St. Louis, said they were attracted by the clinic's focus on federal cases. It also is the only clinic that guides students through both civil litigation and criminal prosecution.

"I've always been extremely interested in criminal law and in the prosecution side of criminal law," said third-year student and clinic participant Tom Rea. "To be able to see criminal law from a federal level was an opportunity that I didn't want to pass up."

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