SearchPast Issues March 27, 2008

Weather Forecast - See the 5-day forecast Calendar Highlights - see the full calendar Friday, March 28 • Performing Arts Dept. Presentation — "Young Choreographers Showcase" Sunday, March 30 • Sam Fox School 79th Annual Fashion Design Show Tuesday, April 1 • School of Law Public Interest Law and Policy Speaker Series — "Race and the Roberts Court" Thursday, April 3 • History Colloquium — "Canterbury Tales, Rashemon and the Telling of History: Official Corruption in the Late Ottoman Empire" Campus Calendars - Academic calendar - Assembly Series - Graduate Professional Council calendar - Schools' calendars - Spark student calendar - University calendar The Record, a twice-weekly electronic newspaper for Washington University faculty, staff and students, is the official source for news and information of vital importance to all members of the campus community. Click below to contact us about: - Record staff - Comments, story ideas - Technical web/email issues - To subscribe - To unsubscribe Citizen of the Year Mark S. Wrighton (right), the 2007 Citizen of the Year, was feted by some 700 attendees at an award ceremony March 25 in Graham Chapel. Sponsored by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the annual award honors an individual who best exemplifies an inspirational level of citizenship, leadership in generating civic pride, and dedication to the growth and vitality of St. Louis. David Kemper, chairman, president and CEO of Commerce Bancshares, chair of WUSTL's Board of Trustees and the 2006 award recipient, presented Wrighton with an engraved Steuben crystal bowl. View slideshow of award ceremony. View chancellor's remarks. National champions Senior Troy Ruths scored 33 points to lead the Bears to their first NCAA Division III men's basketball national championship. The title gave WUSTL its second national championship this academic year — along with women's volleyball — and its first-ever men's team national title in any sport. WUSTL physicians expand patient-care services at Barnes-Jewish West County The School of Medicine is doubling the size of its clinical presence at Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital. New healthcare management major offered at Olin Business School The Olin Business School now offers a major in healthcare management. Professors from both the medical and business schools will teach courses to both business and non-business majors. The degree will help develop a strong grounding in all aspects of the health care industry as well as in the science behind medicine. Assembly Series announces four upcoming programs It's a busy, event-filled week for the Assembly Series, as four nationally-renowned speakers — a noted plant biologist, an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, an editor of a national newspaper and an acclaimed humorist — all will speak on campus. Be prepared Four facilities workers receive empty pill bottles — their "medication" — from volunteers during the University's Strategic National Stockpile drill March 18, which was supervised by the St. Louis County Department of Health and simulated the department's and WUSTL's responses to an anthrax release in St. Louis. Announcements American Indian Awareness Week begins March 31 An American Indian Pow Wow, a traditional food tasting and a discussion on the therapeutic benefits of tribal ceremonies are among the highlights of the University's American Indian Awareness Week March 31-April 5. All events are free and open to the public. The celebration culminates April 5 in the Field House with the 18th annual Pow Wow, a festival of American Indian dancing, singing, drumming, arts, crafts and food. Washington People Civic minded If you overheard just part of a conversation with Amanda Moore McBride, you might very well come away thinking she was either an architect or a carpenter. She talks a lot about building structures. But McBride, Ph.D., assistant professor in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, is focused on different kinds of structures — the kinds that engage citizens in their communities and in the world and encourage them to do things like volunteer, enter government service and vote. Sports Men's swimming places 13th at NCAAs More Headlines Stewards receive ninth annual Harris community service award 79th Annual Fashion Design Show caps Saint Louis Fashion Week Miniature book collection opens at Olin Library Saturday Science seminar series to address concepts in physics Open-source innovation conference April 4-5 Social work lecture series launches March 28 German department hosts media symposium