Photo by Mary Butkus

(From left) Pratim Biswas, Ph.D., Gautam N. Yadama, Ph.D., and Stephen H. Legomsky, J.D., D.Phil., are three of the 13 University faculty members named ambassadors to partner universities in the McDonnell International Scholars Academy. The three were attending a training workshop April 15 at the Charles F. Knight Education Center. Also attending were Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and James V. Wertsch, Ph.D., the Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts & Sciences and director of the academy.

"In general terms, our ambassadors are expected to build what I have called an 'academic commerce' between Washington University and the partner universities," Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton said. "By this I mean working to develop meaningful research and educational collaborations in a bilateral sense with Washington University and/or multilateral collaborations with us and other partner universities of the McDonnell Academy."

The ambassadors and their partner universities are:

• Pratim Biswas, Ph.D., the Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor of Environmental Engineering Science, director of the Environmental Engineering Science Program and principal investigator of the WUSTL Aerosol and Air Quality Research Laboratory; Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay;

• John R. Bowen, Ph.D., the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences and professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences; University of Indonesia;

• Shirley Dyke, Ph.D., the Edward C. Dicke Professor of Engineering; University of Tokyo;

• David Ho, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences; National Taiwan University;

• Stephen H. Legomsky, J.D., D.Phil., the Charles F. Nagel Professor of International and Comparative Law; University of Hong Kong;

• James T. Little, Ph.D., professor of finance and economics in the Olin School of Business; Fudan University;

• T.S. Park, M.D., the Shi H. Huang Professor of Neurosurgery and neurosurgeon in chief at St. Louis Children's Hospital; Korea University, Seoul National University, Yonsei University;

• Ralph S. Quatrano, Ph.D., the Spencer T. Olin Professor and chair of the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences; China Agricultural University;

• Barbara A. Schaal, Ph.D., the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts & Sciences in biology; Peking University;

• Michael W. Sherraden, Ph.D., the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work; National University of Singapore;

• Ping Wang, Ph.D., the Seigle Family Professor in Arts & Sciences and chair of the Department of Economics in Arts & Sciences; Chinese University of Hong Kong;

• Gautam N. Yadama, Ph.D., director of international programs and associate professor in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work; Chulalongkorn University; and

• Frank C.P. Yin, M.D., Ph.D., the Stephen F. and Camilla T. Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering and chair of that department; Tsinghua University.