The Record

Volume 26, No. 1, August 24, 2001


Timothy J. Eberlein, M.D., director of the Siteman Cancer Center at the School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, and cancer survivor Gwendolyn Randall look at an artist's rendering of the Siteman Cancer Center at the announcement of its becoming a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center.

Siteman Cancer Center earns NCI designation

The Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH) has received national recognition by becoming a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center.

The Siteman Cancer Center is the only institution to receive National Cancer Institute (NCI) designation in Missouri and within a 240-mile radius of St. Louis. The milestone recognizes the breadth, depth and balance of activities by researchers, clinicians and staff seeking to advance cancer knowledge, increase cancer screenings and ultimately to improve cancer care.

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Students roll back onto campus

As campus and the South 40 fills with students, there will be new faces in the crowd, the accomplished Class of 2005.

The first-year students --who hail from all over the world and represent 23 countries, 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico --arrived Aug. 16 and have been busy unpacking, learning their way around campus and gearing up for the fall semester. Their classes began Wednesday.

Many in the select group of 1,280 were academic leaders, officers in student government and participants in extracurricular activities and athletics in high school. Collectively, the incoming class has received almost 1,974 special awards and recognitions.

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The first step of the move-in process: Students unload their belongings from vehicles last week at the South 40.


University Council:
Lokken, Thach are appointed by Wrighton

By Kevin M. Kiley

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton has appointed Pamela S. Lokken and Robert E. Thach, Ph.D., to University Council, the University's senior leadership group advising the chancellor.

Lokken is director of governmental and community relations; Thach serves as dean of the graduate school and professor of biology in Arts & Sciences and of biochemistry and molecular biophysics in the School of Medicine.

Thach directed the medical school's Center for Basic Cancer Research (1972-77) and served as director of the graduate program in molecular biology in the division of biology and biomedical sciences (1974-77). He was chair of the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences (1977-81) and coordinator of the program for the special major in biochemistry and molecular biology (1983-93) before assuming the graduate deanship in 1993.

The council now includes 23 academic leaders and managers of the administrative and support areas vital to education, research and service missions of the University. The council provides a mechanism for communication and informed decision-making by the individuals responsible for the University's key academic and administrative units.

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Bad weather forces Fossett to end quest

By Donna Kettenbach

Steve Fossett safely landed his Solo Spirit balloon in southern Brazil Aug. 17 after thunderstorms forced him to end his fifth attempt at the First Solo Balloon Flight Round The World (RTW).

Fossett is a University trustee and 1967 graduate of the Olin School of Business' MBA program.

After 10 hours of flying through thunderstorms, turbulence, lightning, snow and ice, Fossett's team at Mission Control in North Brookings Hall decided it was best to bring the balloon down.

"It made for a very stressful day for the pilot," Chief Meteorologist Bob Rice said.

Fossett also was headed into a stormy weather system that blocked safe entry into the South Atlantic Ocean, Rice said.

 

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