Volume 26, No. 9, October 19, 2001
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Bradley keynote speaker for Founders DayBy Barbara Rea University employees, friends and alumni will gather Oct. 27 to commemorate the 148th anniversary of its founding. This year's Founders Day will follow tradition with the presentation of a guest speaker as well as the presentation of awards for distinguished faculty and alumni. In addition, the Board of Trustees will bestow the Robert S. Brookings Awards. At press time, the event was sold out. The annual event is sponsored by the Alumni Board of Governors and commemorates the University's founding in 1853. Bill Bradley will be the keynote speaker for the event, to be held this year at the Ritz-Carlton in Clayton. Bradley also will participate in a special Founders Day event --exclusively for students --earlier in the day. |
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Green thumbs make a difference Adele Doyle, a senior in biomedical engineering, and Henry Asher, a member of U. City in Bloom, take part in a community garden beautification project at the southeast corner of Clemens and Westgate avenues in the Parkview Gardens Neighborhood Oct. 14. The project, developed by Bart Talley, coordinator for off-campus living, was a collaborative effort between University students residing off campus in the Parkview Gardens neighborhood north of Delmar Loop in University City and U. City in Bloom and was registered as a state and national "Make a Difference Day" volunteer activity. |
Sesquicentennial Commission formedBy Jessica N. Roberts 2003-04 looks to be an excit- ing year for the University. Aside from citywide celebrations marking the anniversaries of the Lewis and Clark expedition and the founding of St. Louis, the University will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its founding. In honor of the sesquicentennial, the University will hold a series of events beginning in September 2003 and running through Commencement 2004. The University recently formed a Sesquicentennial Commission in order
to begin planning the events, according to Robert L. Virgil, Ph.D.,
commission chair, University trustee, former Olin School of Business
dean and former executive vice chancellor for University relations.
The commission is composed of faculty, staff and student representatives,
as well as alumni, parents, trustees and other supporters. |
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Wrighton, Neighbors' Council host meeting to address issuesBy Jessica N. Roberts Nearly 150 residents of nearby neighborhoods, faculty, administration and staff members came to Steinberg Hall Auditorium Oct. 8 for a "Report to Washington University Neighbors" co-hosted by Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and the WU Neighbors' Council. Flint Fowler, Parkview resident and Neighbors' Council member, opened the program by welcoming attendees, introducing special guests and reporting on the work of the council. Wrighton spoke about current activities on campus, including events in response to the Sept. 11 tragedies. Wrighton also discussed the University's success in recruitment and its plans to keep the student body at its current size; the newly expanded Employer Assisted Housing Program; and campus events available to neighbors such as the Assembly Series, Edison Theatre performances and University athletic events. |
International criminal court to be addressed in law debateBy Ann NicholsonThe School of Law's Institute for Global Legal Studies will present a debate on "Should the United States Ratify the International Criminal Court Treaty?" from noon-1:30 p.m. Oct. 22. The event, the inaugural debate in the law school's International Debate Series, will be held in Anheuser-Busch Hall Room 401 and is free and open to the public. International law experts have said such a court --along the lines of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia --could be used to prosecute Osama bin Laden and others allegedly involved in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Michael P. Scharf, J.D., associate professor of law and director of the Center for International Law and Policy at New England School of Law, will argue for ratification of the International Criminal Court Treaty. Lee A. Casey, J.D., an expert in international humanitarian law and a former attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, will argue against ratification. Click to see entire article |
Heart's shape impacted by biomechanical forcesBy Tony Fitzpatrick The poet in us might see the heart as "a lonely hunter"; the adolescent as a toy that's easily broken. But the biomedical engineer sees the heart as a pump, plain and simple, a machine shaped by genetics and complex biomechanical forces. Larry A. Taber, Ph.D., professor of biomedical engineering, has been probing the forces, stresses and deformations of the heart since the mid-1980s. A major focus of his work is to show that biomechanical forces may be as important as genetics in shaping the heart. |
Larry A. Taber, Ph.D., professor of biomedical engineering, studies forces, stresses and deformations of the heart. |
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