Volume 26, No. 2, August 31, 2001
 (From left) Sophomore Stephen Forbes, senior Barry Tobias and sophomore Dan Livengood, all mechanical engineering students, helped with the final integration and testing of Sapphire, a hexagonally shaped satellite to be launched by NASA Sept. 17. |
NASA to launch student satelliteBy Tony Fitzpatrick If all goes as planned, NASA will launch a student-built satellite Sept. 17 from the Alaskan spaceport in Kodiak. The satellite, named Sapphire, was built by the Space Systems Development Laboratory (SSDL) of Stanford University in 1998. However, over the past year dozens of Washington University students have worked with Michael Swartwout, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering, on final integration and testing and on a radio tracking system that can receive and record data from the satellite twice per day. |
 Batter up! With a welcome message on an outfield scoreboard behind him, Edward S. Macias, Ph.D., executive vice chancellor and dean of Arts & Sciences, throws out the ceremonial first pitch at the Aug. 28 Cardinals game against the San Diego Padres at Busch Stadium. More than 450 Arts & Sciences freshmen were on hand to cheer the southpaw on for his successful pitch to the plate. The Council of the South 40 and the Arts & Sciences Peer Advising Program organized the freshman night-out at the ballpark. |
'Irreplaceable dance treasure' McKayle to talk, present workBy Liam Otten Through Sept. 15, McKayle is serving as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University. He is conducting master classes and is coaching students in his work "Rainbow Etude" for the upcoming Washington University Dance Theatre concert. (The annual showcase, scheduled for Nov. 30-Dec. 2, presents professionally choreographed works performed by students from the dance program in the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences.) McKayle will lead one open master class in "Intermediate Modern Technique" from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturday in the Olin Dance Studio in the Ann W. Olin Women's Building. For more information, call 935-5858. |
 McKayle: Part of Assembly Series |
Law speakers series features BrockovichBy Ann Nicholson A consultant for South Africa's post-apartheid constitution, the national chair of Common Cause, the "real" Erin Brockovich and a U.S. District judge known for landmark civil rights rulings are the fall headliners of the School of Law's Public Interest Law Speakers Series. Lectures in the fourth annual "Access to Justice: The Social Responsibility of Lawyers" series are held in Anheuser-Busch Hall. |
Sept maps cellular structures' electrostaticsBy Tony Fitzpatrick David S. Sept, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has helped enable collaborators at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), to map the electrostatic potential of a microtubule, a key cellular structure involved in intracellular transport. Electrostatics describe the way in which the landscape of electrical charges are laid out in a molecular environment; for example, the electric forces that drive the binding of drugs or proteins to microtubules or that place an RNA molecule on a ribosome during translation of genetic information. |