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May 5, 2006
Vol. 30, No. 32

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Eliot Society President Robert L. Virgil, Ph.D., presents the Search Award to Murray L. Weidenbaum, Ph.D., April 26.

Weidenbaum receives Eliot Society's Search Award

He's one of the country's most acclaimed economists and a distinguished WUSTL professor for more than 40 years; the Search is the Eliot Society's highest honor.

University College marks 75 years of education

While students first took evening classes at the University in 1854, it wasn't until 1931 that the night school became "University College."

As part of 'Korean Project,' WUSTL bolstered post-war business training

A government agency contracted with WUSTL in 1953 to cooperate with two universities in Seoul to develop programs in business administration.

From chaos comes order? Physicists make baffling discovery

By introducing disorder in the form of forces applied at random to a network of interconnected pendulums, the system became ordered and synchronized.

5 to receive honorary degrees at Commencement

Those being honored at the 145th event May 19 are Aaron J. Ciechanover, Anna Crosslin, Steve Fossett, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and John F. McDonnell.

Givens to serve as assistant VC and liaison to Gephardt Institute

He will serve as the chancellor's liaison to the Gephardt Institute for Public Service and assist in the development of the University's next strategic plan.

Scientists solve mystery of mutant mouse's kidney woes

Researchers at the School of Medicine are the first to identify a mutated gene that gives insight into kidney failure in human infants.
More medical news

HHMI re-confirms support of Elgin's genomics course

She was named a "Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor" in 2002 and is now one of eight scientists to have their original grant funding renewed in 2006.

Entrepreneurship proposals sought from all faculty

Funding will be made available over two years for single or multiyear projects through a grant program to be administered & coordinated by the CRIE.

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WUSTL, Cinema St. Louis to present children's film symposium

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April 27 was the annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day; the University offered several programs for children ages 8-12.

An environmentally friendly picnic table in the Elizabeth Gray Danforth Butterfly Garden was recently dedicated to honor the University's former first lady.

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