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BY DAVID MOESSNER Piloted in 1997-98 and funded by the William and Flora Hewlett ; a feisty fourth-grader, Foundation, the two-year A^Stephanie si Nelson success- program is an innovative, fullyfu prodded her entire problem-based approach to neighborhood into creating a learning that reaches across the curbside recycling program. boundaries of traditional "We've actually had arguments disciplines. The basic concept is with adult friends about garbage that solving environmental bags," recalled her mother, problems requires both a grasp of Suzanne, with a smile. "That all underlying scientific issues and started with Stephanie." the cultural understanding Nine years later, the Washing- necessary to form viable policy ton University sophomore is and conservation strategies. helping sustain the life of the Fully compatible with all Missouri River. majors and preprofessional Furthering those early-in-life programs, the Hewlett Program lessons that she bravely con- incorporates small discussion fronted door-to-door back in classes, collaborative projects, Raymond E. Arvidson, Ph.D., (left) professor and chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Livonia, Mich., Nelson now is one lectures, field trips and cultural Sciences in Arts and Sciences and project leader of the Hewlett Program in Environmental Studies, of 71 undergraduates enrolled in and social activities. accompanied 20 students to California's Mojave Desert in March. Another group of 20 Hewlett students the Hewlett Program in Environ- "It's really a pathway for the did field work in the Four Corners region of the Southwest. mental Studies. See Hewlett, page 6 Ackerman named Eliot Professor Chemistry chair is oldest at Washington University

Joseph J. H. Ackerman, Ph.D., Natural Sciences and Mathematics "He came to Washington Univer- professor and chair of the and the Division of Biology and sity having already distinguished Department of Chemistry in Biomedical Sciences and numer- himself in the scientific commu- Arts and Sciences, has been ous other panels. nity, and he has continued to do named William Greenleaf Eliot Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton outstanding work in a field that Professor of Chemistry. The Eliot praised Ackerman's research and has become more and more chair is the oldest professorship dedication. "Washington Univer- important and critical to work in here, dating back to the sity is fortunate to be able to many other fields. University's earliest years. recognize Dr. Joseph Ackerman by "He cares deeply about our Ackerman, who also holds appointing him as William curriculum and is wonderful with joint appointments as research Greenleaf Eliot Professor of our students and faculty, espe- professor of chemistry and as Chemistry," Wrighton said. cially in mentoring young faculty professor of radiology in the "Dr. Ackerman has made members," Macias added. "I am School of Medicine, is known pathbreaking contributions in the enormously pleased that he will internationally for his contribu- chemical sciences and has been an become the Eliot Professor of tions to the application and extraordinary contributor to the Chemistry." development of nuclear magnetic advance of the Department of William Greenleaf Eliot was resonance techniques for the Chemistry and the University as a president of the University's Board study of intact living systems. whole. Personally, I am grateful to of Trustees from 1854 to 1870 and Ackerman came to the Dr. Ackerman for his leadership chancellor from 1870 to 1887. University in 1979. He has and scholarship and for his Eight distinguished chemists published widely in the field and commitment to Washington have held the Eliot professorship is the author or co-author of University." in the past: John M. Schofield, nearly 100 scientific manuscripts. Edward S. Macias, Ph.D., 1857-62; Abram Litton, 1862-91; He provides leadership across executive vice chancellor and dean Charles R. Sanger, 1899; Edward campus, serving on the executive of Arts and Sciences, announced Harris Keiser, 1900-13; Leroy committees of the Division of the appointment. "Joe and I have McMaster, 1922-46; Joseph W. been colleagues for over two Kennedy, 1950-57; John Sowden, Joseph Ackerman is the subject of decades and I know from my own 1957-62; and David Lipkin, 1966 the Washington People profile on experience that he is an absolutely until 1981, when he became Eliot page 8 of this week's Record. first-rate scientist," Macias said. Professor Emeritus. Picture this: Study captures images of memories in the making BY GERRY EVERDING Randy L. Buckner, senior author studying the brain, I could until the process of memorization." of the article and assistant recently tell you very little about Although psychologists have The birth of a memory — the professor of psychology in Arts Research finds that levels the brain basis of such a process. long suspected that how we split second when the human and Sciences. "Now, we can of activity in certain "Now, by exploring brain process information into memory brain encodes an event for future actually see areas of the brain as activity associated with experi- is critically important to later reference — has been captured they go about the process of brain structures can ences that we will remember and remembering and forgetting, this through sophisticated memorization." predict whether comparing it to activity associated study is the first to capture images neuroimaging and used to predict Based on collaborative research with words that we will forget, we of specific memories as they are whether experiences will be by scientists at Washington information will be are making progress in trying to being formed within the brain. remembered later or forgotten, University, the Massachusetts retained in memory. answer this question," he went on. "This study provides a firmer according to research just General Hospital-Nuclear "What our research suggests is biological underpinning for the published in the journal Science. Magnetic Resonance Center that certain specific brain areas in concept that how we encode "This study marks the first (MGH-NMR) in Boston and "One of the big questions the front-most part of the brain, information is key to whether or time we've been able to peer Harvard University, the journal about memory is why is it that we just above and behind the eyes, not it is remembered," said Daniel inside someone's brain and article describes how levels of remember some of our experi- will be more active when we are Schacter, chair of psychology at predict on average whether or not activity in certain brain structures ences and yet not others," Buckner experiencing a word that we will Harvard and a co-author of the you will later forget something can predict whether information said. "We all know this fact from remember, and this activity may study. "It is the first work to tie you are now experiencing," said will be retained in memory. our daily lives, yet as a scientist participate in one component of See Memories, page 2 2 RECORD WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS The view from Pike's Peak Researchers test new color imaging device

BY TONY FITZPATRICK Space Battlelab, located at nearby Shriever Air Force Base in Atrip to the top of Pike's "It's a majestic view Colorado Springs, Colo. Not Peak sounds like the perfect and a fortunate place surprisingly, the U.S. Air Force is summer escape from interested in this technology for St. Louis. But for scientists at to do research." remote sensing and surveillance. Washington University, Pike's DANIEL R. FUHRMANN For example, a hyperspectral Peak is a research station — with sensor could be used to detect a view. man-made objects in a natural This summer, William H. into hundreds of different environment. Smith, Ph.D., professor of earth spectral bands. By comparison, a Fuhrmann joined the data and planetary sciences in Arts typical color camera and the collection effort as a part of and Sciences, and Daniel R. human visual system can only research sponsored by the Fuhrmann, Ph.D., associate resolve the visible spectrum into Boeing-McDonnell Foundation. professor of electrical engineer- three broad overlapping bands He and Donald L. Snyder, Ph.D., ing in the School of Engineering — red, green and blue. the Samuel C. Sachs Professor of and Applied Science, tested a new Hyperspectral data, as it is Electrical Engineering, are kind of imaging sensor atop the known, can be used to identify working on a research project summit of Pike's Peak, 14,110 and discriminate objects in a involving computer processing feet above sea level. The team scene using highly detailed color of the type of data collected by plans a second trip there this information not discernible by the DASI. month. the human eye. "It's a majestic view," Smith is the inventor of the Smith and Dennis Fuhrmann said of the location, Digital Array Scanned Interfer- Angelisanti, a former Washing- "and a fortunate place to do ometer, or DASI. This is a device ton University graduate student research." that can record digital images and an employee of Medeco, The team is beginning now to much like a camera, except that it Smith's private company, are process the collected data. ROCky MOUIltain higtl William H. Smith, Ph.D., (second from sponsored by the Air Force left) professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts and Sciences, can produce image data resolved and Daniel R. Fuhrmann, Ph.D., (right) associate professor of electrical engineering, pause from summer research atop Pike's Peak in Colorado for a picture with U.S. Air Force personnel forgotten," Wagner said. image data from "individual assigned to the project. trials," pioneering a research Memories Abstract vs. concrete method now known as "event- Wagner and colleagues used related" neuroimaging. Images Imaging memories as event-related fMRI to measure that took about one minute to 'Race, Class, Color' — panel they form in the brain small but significant differences in capture using PET technology — from page 1 brain activation as young adults can now be captured by fMRI for completed various verbal tasks. events as brief as 30 milliseconds. to discuss affirmative action the creation of a specific verbal The experiments were structured Research methods used in the memory to specific levels of to test whether participants are study are creating plenty of Cass R. Sunstein, who has professor of law, will chair the activity in certain areas of the more likely to remember tasks excitement in the field, said advised countries from South panel. Other panel members are: brain." that require a deeper, more Buckner, because the technique Africa to Ukraine to China on Robert A. Pollak, Ph.D., the Anthony Wagner, a meaningful level of consideration, allows scientists to explore how constitution-making and legal Hernreich Distinguished Profes- postdoctoral research fellow at as opposed to more routine tasks specific brain activity relates to reform efforts, will take part in a sor of Economics in Arts and the MGH-NMR Center and the — a theory supported by earlier individual mental events. panel discussion on "Race, Class, Sciences and the John M. Olin Department of Psychology at psychological research. "An open question that we Color...? Rethinking Affirmative School of Business; Sunita Parikh, Harvard, spearheaded the While the participants' brain still haven't explored as fully as Action" Wednesday, Sept. 9. Ph.D., assistant professor in the research and is the article's first activity was being scanned, they we would like is what exactly Sunstein, the Orthwein Scholar Department of Political Science in author. His study is one of two were asked to distinguish between these brain areas are doing in Residence for fall 1998 at the Arts and Sciences; Barbara Flagg, articles on memory in this issue words that are concrete, such as during the process of memoriza- School of Law, is the Karl N. J.D., professor of law; and Pauline of Science that are based on dog or cat, and words that are tion," he said. "We've identified Llewellyn Distinguished Service Kim, J.D., associate professor of advanced functional magnetic abstract, such as love or hate. some of the players; now the Professor of Jurisprudence at the law. resonance imaging (fMRI) Subjects were later asked to recall question becomes what game University of Chicago School of Sunstein has authored or techniques that were developed whether specific words had or had they are playing. Are they Law and the Department of co-authored 10 books, including by Buckner and Anders Dale, a not been included in the tests. involved in helping us to pay Political Science. the most widely adopted law researcher at MGH and another When researchers compared attention to experiences in a The panel discussion, which is school text on constitutional law, of the co-authors of Wagner's the level of brain activity during manner that promotes memori- open to the public, will begin at and more than 100 articles. He study. processing of words remembered zation or are they playing a role 3 p.m. in Room 306 Anheuser- has advised on constitution- "This new technique is what with activity for words later in the binding of a memory into Busch Hall. A reception will making and law reform in many allows us to specify how brain forgotten, they found that some form of long-term storage? follow in the Hadley Griffin countries, including South Africa, activity during learning differs increased activity in specific These are questions we would Student Commons. Israel, Russia, China, Poland, between experiences later structures in the left frontal and like to pursue in the future. Clark D. Cunningham, J.D., Ukraine and Bosnia. remembered and those later temporal lobes predicted whether "What we might be seeing is participants would remember research methods that are correctly. The study also confirms allowing us to step on the path that a person seems to remember that will eventually lead us to News Briefs something better when he or she understanding memory pro- pays attention to its meaning, cesses that are impaired, such as rather than to more superficial in Alzheimer's Disease or Professional growth attributes such as physical children with learning disabili- Need help setting priorities, appearance. ties," Buckner said. "Time will handling stress or managing Accelerated imaging tell." your time? Courses offered Other co-authors of the paper through the training and Previous brain research using are Michael Rotte, MD., and development division of the positron emission tomography Bruce Rosen, MD, of the MGH- Office of Human Resources can (PET) and other relatively slow NMR Center, and Wilma help. The division recently forms of brain imaging required Koutsaal, Ph.D., and Anat Maril announced its fall/winter 1998 the use of "block trials," in which of the Department of Psychology program for University employ- subjects were asked to repeat a at Harvard. The study was ees. Among the offerings are string of similar short tasks so supported by grants from the several professional develop- that data could be collected over a National Institute on Aging, the ment courses, including longer period. National Institute on Deafness "Managing Multiple Priorities," In 1996, when Buckner was at and Communications Disorders, "Managing Change and Stress," the Harvard Medical School, he the Human Frontiers Science "Service for Success" and "Team and his colleagues capitalized on Program and the Deutsche Campus quiz: What building do you enter when you pass under the speed of fMRI to collect brain Forschungsgemeinschaft. Leadership." Others deal with this arch? 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BY BARBRA RODRIGUEZ source of transplants after parts from two different animals. foreign blood vessels are a major more suitable for transplanta- hearing her husband give a To test whether the organs stimulator of rejection. The use tion. Once transplanted, it School of Medicine researchers transplant lecture in March 1996 function, Hammerman and of a developing kidney also was would be fed by blood vessels have found a novel way to in London. Rogers removed kidneys from key to reducing the immune from the human host. grow new kidneys that might Soon after, Hammerman and several animals and attached response. A rat rejects an adult He notes, however, that the one day lessen the need for human research instructor Sharon each foreign kidney to the ureter kidney from another rat within a risk of transmitting viruses donor organs. When they placed a Rogers tried placing single left behind. The ureter is a tube week. from pigs to humans needs to developing rat kidney inside the developing kidneys under the at the base of a kidney that A rat kidney is sufficiently be adequately addressed before abdominal cavity of an adult rat, it capsule that covers the kidney of carries urine to the bladder. different from a human kidney to considering such transplants. became a smaller version of an adult rats. At The be a poor transplant choice, but "This work is only a first step," adult kidney. the same time, researchers pig kidneys are similar in size he said. "We're a long way from "The organs look just like they removed removed the and function to those of humans. being able to use this technol- normal rat kidneys," said lead an adult kidney This finding might rats' other Hammerman suggested that ogy in humans." scientist Marc R. Hammerman, to stimulate one day decrease the need kidneys at this developing pig kidneys might be M.D., the Chromalloy Professor of growth of the point and Renal Diseases in Medicine and juvenile kidney, for human donor organs. tested the director of the Renal Division. called a chimeras' Hammerman notes that their metanephros. ability to function needs to be improved The juvenile kidneys survived single-handedly carry out kidney before they can be of use, but he and grew — despite concern that function. A small amount of a hopes the work could be used to the rats' immune defenses would sugar called inulin was injected develop transplantable kidneys attack the foreign organs. into the rats' bloodstream. It was that would be "They actually grew and cleared by the chimeric kidneys less likely to developed into kidneys that you and dumped into the rat's urine. be rejected. don't need to immunosuppress," The chimeric kidneys had less More than Hammerman said. than 1 percent of a normal 39,000 kidney The kidneys did not grow kidney's function. In compari- patients well, possibly due to tight son, a dialysis machine augments currently are quarters inside the kidney a person's kidney function by on the capsule. But when the research- roughly 10 percent. The re- national ers placed the dots of kidney searchers are testing a cocktail of waiting list of tissue inside a sac-like mem- growth factors to try to increase the United brane that surrounds and chimera function to 20 percent Hammerman: Network for supports abdominal organs, they of normal. "We're not at the Kidney researcher Qrsan reached a third of the size of an point where these kidneys can Sharing. In 1997,2,000 people adult kidney within six weeks. sustain life, but we're working on died waiting for kidneys. The membrane releases growth it," Hammerman said. Hammerman's results were promoting factors and ones that They also have shown that published in a recent issue of stimulate blood vessel forma- chimeric kidneys thrive and are Kidney International. His wife, tion. not rejected by rats' immune Nancy Hammerman, is a Within four weeks, the rats systems within six months of co-author. An art teacher in the had produced new blood vessels attachment to ureters. Pattonville School District, Nancy that connected the kidneys to Hammerman suspects this partly Hammerman suggested that their own blood supply, creating reflects the host origin of the developing kidneys might be a chimeric kidneys containing kidney's blood vessels because

Penelope Shackelford named director of new Division of Pediatric Ambulatory Medicine

Penelope G. Shackelford, practice, including preregistration, University faculty in 1972 as an M.D., professor of pediatrics scheduling, coordination of care, instructor of pediatrics. She and associate professor of patient and physician satisfaction was named associate professor A Challenging COlirSe First-year student Margaret Mann molecular microbiology, has been and the integration of these of molecular microbiology in climbs the Alpine Tower at Greensfelder Park as part of the named director of the new services with the Faculty Practice 1985 and professor of pediat- second annual ROPES fitness and team-building course. The ROPES course, held Aug. 29 in conjunction with the annual Division of Pediatric Ambulatory Plan and Children's Hospital. She rics in 1991. From 1993 to Diversity Workshop, was sponsored by Student Support Medicine. also will study the development of 1998, she served as director of Services and the Office of Diversity Programs. The appointment was educational models for residents the Division of Pediatric announced by Alan L. Schwartz, and students in an ambulatory Infectious Diseases. M.D., Ph.D., the Harriet B. center of specialized pediatric care. Spoehrer Her research interests include Professor the development of the immune and head of system, focusing on antibodies Longest running grant at University Pediatrics at that bind to bacterial polysaccha- the School of rides — the coat that allows Scientists use PET to study biochemical processes Medicine and bacteria to evade the body's pediatrician- defenses. She now is working on A School of Medicine research individuals develop erratic heart product are found in the brain, in-chief at programs to improve the immu- team has received a five-year beats. and Raichle will determine St. Louis nization rate among children who $9.2 million renewal of a program Welch also will study a PET whether this reflects its ability to Children's receive care in the BJC Health project grant from the National marker that holds promise of readily slip into the general identifying tissues that become circulation. Shackelford: New Hospital. System. Her clinical interests are Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute division director "Penny general pediatric infectious (NHLBI). The investigators will starved of oxygen. These include Robert J. Gropler, M.D., Shackelford diseases and children with study biochemical processes in the brain tissue after a stroke, heart associate professor of radiology, brings clinical excellence, recurrent infections and immune brain, heart and lungs using muscle after a heart attack and will lead a third project to identify administrative savvy and vision to deficiencies. images produced by positron regions of tumors that are factors that influence which our growing programs in Among her numerous awards emission tomography (PET). difficult to treat. In collaboration energy source is chosen by heart pediatric ambulatory medicine," are the 1989 Washington Univer- The grant has been funded with Yasuhisa Fujibayashi, Ph.D, muscle in early-onset diabetes. Schwartz said. "Her leadership in sity Teacher of the Year Award, a continuously for 36 years, making associate professor of The choice may influence the risk development of ______, ■ ■ ■ Washington it the longest-running program biomolecular imaging at Kyoto of developing cardiovascular the integrated University project grant at the University. University, Japan, Welch will test a disease, which is the leading killer pediatric "Penny Shackelford Distinguished "We're developing sophisti- compound that targets oxygen- of people with diabetes. subspecialties at Faculty Award in cated molecular probes so we can poor areas. It carries a radioactive Daniel P. Schuster, M.D., Missouri Baptist brings clinical excellence, 1992 and a better understand processes that form of copper that is released professor of medicine and of Hospital is just administrative savvy and School of play a role in normal biology and under low-oxygen conditions. radiology, will lead a fourth the beginning of . • Medicine disease," said principal investiga- Marcus E. Raichle, M.D., project. He will determine the programs of vision to our growing Alumni Faculty tor Michael J. Welch, Ph.D. Welch professor of radiology and of whether enzyme inhibitors can be clinical excel- programs in pediatric Award in 1998. is co-director of the Division of neurology, will lead the second used to treat pulmonary hyper- lence that Penny Shackelford Radiological Sciences at the project to better understand how tension, a form of high blood will foster." ambulatory medicine." received a medical school's Mallinckrodt normal brain activity relates to pressure resulting from constric- The pediatric ALAN L. SCHWARTZ bachelor's degree Institute of Radiology and a the factors measured by PET and tion of blood vessels in the lungs. ambulatory from the professor of radiology and of another imaging method called As part of the program medicine University of molecular biology and pharma- functional magnetic resonance project, Welch also will develop division, which started July 1, Wisconsin in 1964 and a medical cology. imaging (/MRI). PET can new methods for labeling includes services at St. Louis degree from Washington Univer- Welch and Arnold Strauss, correlate blood flow or glucose biologically relevant markers. Children's Hospital and Missouri sity School of Medicine in 1968. M.D., professor of pediatrics and use with brain activity, whereas Additionally, Welch has Baptist Hospital. She completed her pediatric of molecular biology and /MRI measures how much oxygen received a five-year $1.2 million In her new role, Shackelford training at Babies and Children's pharmacology, will collaborate on there is in blood. grant from the NHLBI for will oversee the ambulatory Hospital, Cleveland, and at the first project of the program. Raichle also will study the research on lung transplant specialty services of the Depart- St. Louis Children's Hospital. They will evaluate a PET method importance of glucose breakdown rejection. His research will ment of Pediatrics. She will After fellowship training in for identifying people who cannot without oxygen by analyzing a involve enzyme inhibitors organize and direct the infectious diseases at St. Louis break down fatty acids to generate product of the sugar's breakdown. designed to reduce transplant multispecialty ambulatory Children's Hospital, she joined the energy for heart muscle. Such Only small amounts of the lactate rejection. 4 RECORD WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS University Events Streetcar • Cloning • Affirmative Action • Volleyball Exhibitions Book artist Susan Barron presents slide lecture here Sept. 9

"Visible Poetry: A Survey of Illustrated Olin Library, the School of volumes, "ANOTHER SONG," by 1995 and encompasses more premedicine and later earned Books." Through September. Special Art and the International Olin Library's Special Collections. than 15 years of her work. advanced degrees in clinical Collections, fifth floor, Olin Library. Writers Center in Arts and "ANOTHER SONG" (1981) Barron's work is included in diagnostic chemistry. In 1974, 935-5495. Sciences will co-sponsor was a milestone in the field of the permanent collections of she relocated to New York, where "Washington University Art Collections." "Which Way is Forward and handmade, limited-edition The Metropolitan Museum of she continues to work as a Four mini-exhibitions from the University's Which Way is Not," a slide monographs. The volume Art, New York; clinical collection. Opening reception Sept. 11,5-7 lecture by internationally- contains forty original prints the Philadelphia chemist. p.m. Exhibit runs through Oct. 25. Gallery of Art. 935-4523. recognized book artist Susan each accompanied by a poem Museum of Art; "Which Way is In 1997, Barron, at 7:30 p.m. Wednes- especially written for the the Victoria & Forward" two of Barron's day, Sept. 9 at the West sequence by avant-garde com- Albert Museum, works were Campus Conference Center. poser John Cage. Barron's other London; the Where West Campus Conference included in the The lecture marks the book projects include "Twisting Museum of Center exhibition Films acquisition of one of her Silence" (1991), Modern Art, "The Dual When 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9 "Mirror" New York; The Muse: The (1994), Fitz-William Cost Free and open to the public Writer as Friday, Sept. 4 'Jamaica Museum, Artist, the 7 and 9:30 p.m. Filmboard Feature Series. 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Room 100 Minn.-Minneapolis. Room 362 935-4958. (See story on page 2.) McDonnell Hall. 935-5603. Noon. Cell biology and physiology Brown Hall. 3:45 p.m. Physics colloquium. "The Use of seminar. "Regulation of the Eukaryotic 935-5983. High Pressure in Basic, Materials and Life Friday, Sept. 4 Cell Cycle: Mitotic- and G2 Checkpoint- Sciences." James S. Schilling, prof, of Control." Helen M. Piwnica-Worms, prof, Sports Friday, Sept. 11 9:15 a.m. Pediatric Grand Rounds. physics. Room 204 Crow Hall. 935-6276. of cell biology and physiology. Room 426 McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. 7 and 9:30 p.m. Filmboard Feature Series. "Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria: 7:30 p.m. Slide lecture. "Which Way is 362-6950. "Chinatown." (Also Sept. 12, same times, A Blessing in Disguise." Monica Bessler, Forward and Which Way is Not." Susan Saturday, Sept. 5 and Sept. 13, 7 p.m.) Cost: $3 first visit; asst. prof, of medicine and of molecular Barron, book artist. Co-sponsored by Olin . $2 subsequent visits. Room 100 Brown biology and pharmacology. Clopton Library, School of Art and International 1:30 p.m. Washington U. Classic. Women's Hall. 935-5983. Aud., 4950 Children's Place. 454-6006. Writers Center. West Campus Conference soccer team vs. Gustavus Adolphus Center, 7425 Forsyth Blvd. 935-4670. College. Francis Field. 935-5220. Midnight. Filmboard Midnight Series. "A Wednesday, Sept. 9 Clockwork Orange." (Also Sept. 12, same Music Sunday, Sept. 6 time, and Sept. 13, 9:30 p.m.) Cost: $3 8 a.m. Obstetrics and Gynecology Grand Thursday, Sept. 10 first visit; $2 subsequent visits. Room 100 Rounds. "Lessons from the Land of Low 4 p.m. The Cancer Center Seminar Series. 1:30 p.m. Washington U. Classic. Women's Brown Hall. 935-5983. Tech: Cervical Cancer Screening and "Gene Transfer into Hematopoietic Stem Tuesday, soccer team vs. Macalester College. Treatment in Developing Countries." Paul Cells: Biological Solutions to Practical Francis Field. 935-5220. D. Blumenthal, assoc. prof., Johns Problems." David Bodine, chief, Sept. 8 Hopkins University. Clopton Aud., 4950 Hematopoiesis Section, NIH, Bethesda, Md. 8 p.m. Concert. Friday, Sept. 11 Children's Place. 362-1016. Third Floor Aud., Children's Hospital. Cosy Sheridan, 5:30 p.m. Washington U. Classic. 747-0359. acoustic guitarist. Lectures Volleyball team vs. Ike's Place, Wohl 4 p.m. Earth and planetary sciences Trinity U. Field Center. 935-7576. colloquium. "Isotopic Structure in House. 935-5220. Thursday, Sept. 3 Potassium? Well, Yes or No." Frank A. Podosek, prof, of earth and planetary 7:30 p.m. 8 a.m. Cancer Center lecture. The Rena sciences. Room 362 McDonnell Hall. Washington U. Schechter Memorial Lecture in Cancer 935-5603. Classic. Volleyball Research. "Bench-to-Bedside Approaches team vs. U. of Wis.- 4 p.m. Joint Center for East Asian Studies in the Treatment of Advanced Prostate Performances Whitewater. Field Cancer." Kenneth Pienta, dir., Specialized lecture. "Hyphenated Identities." Harry H. House. 935-5220. Program of Research Excellence, U. of Kitano, prof, of social welfare and sociology, Mich. Clopton Aud„ 4950 Children's Place. UCLA. Room 331 Social Sciences and Thursday, Sept. 10 Business Bldg., UMSL 935-4448. Saturday, Sept. 12 747-0359. 8 p.m. Performing arts dept. performance. 11 a.m. Assembly Series lecture. 10 a.m. Washington U. Classic. Volleyball 4 p.m. Earth and planetary sciences "Dance Close-Up." Dance faculty perform "Cloning: Its Past, Present and Future." Friday, Sept. 11 team vs. Illinois College. Field House. colloquium. "The Three 'Paleos': seven works in a variety of dance styles. Gina Kolata, science writer, The New 935-5220. Magnetism, Dynamo and Record of Global 9:15 a.m. Pediatric Grand Rounds. "State of (Also Sept. 11 and 12, same time, with a York Times. Graham Chapel. 935-5285. Change (And the Mineral Magnetic Thread the Department." Alan L. Schwartz, the special benefit performance Sept. 13, 10 a.m. Washington U. Invitational. Men's

Exhibits to showcase University holdings Series begins Sept 11 with four'mini-exhibitions' Since its founding in 1853, Gallery of Art will attempt to Collections," will open with a Beckmann and other modern assistant professor of art Washington University has display the breadth of this reception from 5 to 7 p.m. masters. history and archaeology. The amassed a distinguished collection through a series of Friday, Sept. 11, and remain on Lower Gallery I will feature exhibition explores the move collection of art that is exhibitions curated by University view through Oct. 25. Both the "Magnificent Rome: A 16th- away from the grand subject internationally recognized for faculty and gallery staff. exhibition and the reception are century View," curated by Weil, matter of neoclassical and its quality. During the 1998-99 The first of these exhibitions, free and open to the public. which examines the Renaissance romantic painting — which academic year, the University's "Washington University Art "We are really delighted to be obsession with ancient Rome were often drawn from able to show such an impressive through a series of engravings literature, history and the Bible selection of objects from the from the period. These prints — — to pictures that attempted to University's holdings," said which served as a kind of 16th- combine observations of a Mark S. Weil, acting director of century mass media, allowing particular time or place with the Gallery of Art and chair of images to be disseminated across more general observations the Department of Art History about the human condition. and Archaeology in Arts and Lower Galleries III and IV Sciences. "We hope, over the University Art will feature "19th-century next year or so, to rotate the American Art," curated by exhibitions so that the people of Collections Angela Miller, Ph.D., associate St. Louis have an opportunity to Where Gallery of Art professor of art history and see the bulk of the collection." archaeology. The exhibition "Washington University Art When Sept. 11-Oct. 25, with opening documents some of the main Collections" will consist of four reception at 5 p.m. Sept. 11 currents in 19th-century mini-exhibitions, each displayed Cost Free and open to the public American art, ranging from in one of the Gallery of Art's Benjamin West's "The Submis- five exhibition spaces. The sion of Prince John to Richard Upper Gallery will feature Europe — document Roman I" (1797-1802), which exempli- "Early Modern European and ruins and attempt to reconstruct fies the academic approach to American Art," curated by classical buildings and objects as history painting, to Childe gallery staff, which includes they were thought to have existed. Hassam's impressionist works by Pablo Picasso, Juan Lower Gallery II will feature "Diamond Cove, Isles of Naum Gabo's "Linear Construction in Space No. 1 (Variation)" in Gris, George Braque, Theo van "The Realist Vision: 19th-century Shoals" (1908). plexiglass with nylon monofilament (1942-43) is an early example Doesburg, Marsden Hartley, European Art," curated by The Gallery of Art is located of the use of modern materials in contemporary sculpture. Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Max Elizabeth C. Childs, Ph.D., in Steinberg Hall. record.wustl.edu WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS September 3, 1998 5 'Dance Close-Up' Faculty present new and original work

BY LIAM OTTEN a new collaboration between Payne, adjunct dance faculty, Christine A. O'Neal, Annamaria performs this traditional West The Performing Arts Depart Pileggi and William Whitaker, all African dance to the accompani- ment in Arts and Sciences performing arts faculty. Set to the ment of live drumming. will present its fourth annual music of Nat King Cole and • "Mr. Johnson Regrets"— "Dance Close-Up," an intimate Natalie Cole, "Unforgettable" is a David W. Marchant, a fifth-year and informal presentation of new chilling depiction of a woman's artist in residence, and dancer and original choreography by the escape from an abusive relation- Carrie Hanson will combine department's dance faculty, at ship and is based on a series of forces for this peek into the lives 8 p.m. Sept. 10,11 and 12 in the interviews with abuse victims and of an isolated couple whose grasp Mallinckrodt Center Dance counselors. O'Neal, director of the of reality might be suspect. Studio, Room 207. The evening University's ballet program and a • "For Robert: On Order(s)" will feature former soloist — Five members of the perform- seven works in a with the ing arts faculty — Pileggi, Ann variety of dance 'Dance Close-Up' National Ballet Fox, Arthur H. Hirsch, Jeffrey S. styles, including and American Matthews and Valerie Safron — modern dance, Where Mallinckrodt Center Dance Ballet Theatre, join choreographer Mary-Jean ballet, African Studio, Room 207 choreographed Cowell and director Whitaker in a and Indian When 8 p.m. Sept. 10-12; 3 p.m. and performs wry meditation on the essential, dance. Sept. 13 the work. Some pleasurable and sometimes An addi- scenes also were irritating functions of order. Tickets $10 for the general public, $8 tional perfor- developed with • "Rain" — Asha Prem, for faculty, staff, students and senior mance will be the help of adjunct dance faculty, performs citizens, $5 for floor seating. held at 3 p.m. Michael an original work to the music of Available at the Edison Theatre Box Sept. 13 as a Monsey, a local the Anglo-Indian band Colonial Office (935-6543) or through benefit for local actor who Cousins. MetroTix (534-1111). Tickets to the groups support- specializes in • "Sanctum" — Mary Ann Sept. 13 benefit performance are $45 ing battered staged fighting. Rund, adjunct dance faculty, Christine A. O'Neal, director of the University's ballet program, and and are available by calling 935-4475. women (see "The piece is performs this exploration into the William Whitaker perform "Unforgettable," depicting a woman's accompanying based on realm of chosen confinement and escape from an abusive relationship, under the direction of story). ballroom the freedom found within. Annamaria Pileggi. All are artists in residence in the Performing '"Dance Close-Up' allows us to dancing — which is very circular, • "Offering" — Rund and Arts Department in Arts and Sciences. share our own work with stu- full of loops and swirls — in order Dawn Karlovsky, adjunct dance dents, colleagues and the sur- to speak to the 'cycle' of abuse," faculty, perform a new duet. rounding community," said Mary- O'Neal said. Tickets are $10 for the general Jean Cowell, Ph.D., associate Parents should be warned that public; $8 for senior citizens and Violence between intimates professor and coordinator of the "Unforgettable" — which will be Washington University faculty, Dance Program, who serves as the last work performed in each staff and students; and $5 for — exploring a troubling issue artistic director for "Dance Close- evening's program — contains seating on the studio floor. Tickets Up." "It's our equivalent to a language and situations not are available at the Edison Theatre BY LIAM OTTEN session with Dwayne L. Brown, research publication." appropriate for young children. box office, located in Mallinckrodt executive director of Rape and The evening will feature seven Other dances include: Center, at 935-6543, or through Relationship Violence Preven- Violence End Now (RAVEN); dances, including "Unforgettable," • "Lamban" — Chiquita MetroTix at 534-1 111. tion Week," a series of campus Lynn Rothbarth, executive events designed to raise awareness director of Legal Advocates for around the issue of relationship Abused Women; and Currie Tucher, a representative of the and women's cross country. Tower Grove violence, will begin Sept. 13 at Park, St. Louis. 935-5220. Science writer Gina Kolata here Sept. 9 Washington University. Events Missouri Coalition Against include a benefit dance concert Domestic Violence. 1 p.m. Women's soccer team vs. St. Mary's Gina Kolata, science writer for the Path Ahead." She has won College. Anheuser-Busch Soccer Park, and several talks and panel Other events include: Fenton, Mo. 935-5220. The New York Times, will numerous awards for her writing. discussions. Sept. 14 — "Making the Legal deliver the opening lecture for the Kolata's career in journalism "What's unique about this System Work for Victims of 1:30 p.m. Football team vs. Wheaton Assembly Series fall season. began when she joined Science College. Francis Field. 935-5220. program is that we're focusing on Domestic Violence." A Kolata's talk, titled " Cloning: Its magazine in 1971, where in time relationship violence in all its roundtable discussion at 6:30 p.m. 3 p.m. Washington U. Classic. Volleyball Past, Present and Future," will take she became a writer and then team vs. U. of Wis.-Oshkosh. Field House. forms, whether that's date rape, in the Law School Student 935-5220. place at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 9, senior writer. At one time, she had physical abuse or emotional Commons, Anheuser-Busch Hall. in Graham Chapel. The lecture is three monthly columns: for GQ, Calendar guidelines abuse," said Stephanie Kurtzman, Sept. 15 — "Introduction to free and open to the public. for the German science magazine coordinator for women's pro- RAD Self-Defense Training for Events sponsored by the University — its Kolata, a science and medicine Bild der Wissenschaft and for the departments, schools, centers, organizations grams and community service in Women." An informational forum and recognized student organizations — are reporter, has written more than Journal of Investigative Derma- the Office of Student Activities. on the Rape Aggression Defense published in the calendar. All events are free 1,000 articles for the Times in the tology. and open to the public, unless otherwise "Relationship Violence System for women, beginning at noted. past 11 years. Her articles have Kolata earned a bachelor's Prevention Week" begins at 3 p.m. 6 p.m. in Lambert Lounge, Calendar submissions should state time, date, appeared in almost every section degree in microbiology and a Sept. 13 with a benefit perfor- Mallinckrodt Center. place, sponsor(s), title of event or lecture, of the paper, including the front master's degree in applied mance of "Dance Close-Up" (see Sept. 15 —"Defending Our name(s) of speaker(s), speaker(s) page. Kolata also is the author of mathematics from the University affiliation(s) and admission cost. Mail items to related story, this page). One of Lives." A portrait of women who Calendar at Campus Box 1070 or fax to three books, "The Baby Doctors: of Maryland. She studied molecu- the pieces included in the concert, have been incarcerated after 935-4259 or e-mail to Record_Calendar@ Probing the Limits of Fetal lar biology at the Massachusetts aismail.wustl.edu. Submission forms are Christine O'Neal's duet "Unfor- defending themselves against available by calling 935-4926 and can be Medicine," "Sex in America" Institute of Technology in a Ph.D. gettable," depicts a woman's abusive partners, starting at 7:30 downloaded from the Record Web site at (written with Edward Laumann, program from 1969 to 1971 but escape from an abusive relation- p.m. in Brown Hall Lounge. record.wustl.edu/guide.html. John Gagnon and Robert left to pursue her writing career. The deadline for all entries is noon Tuesday ship. Sept. 16 — "Behind Closed one week prior to publication. Late or Michaels) and, most recently, For more information, call The "Dance Close-Up" benefit Doors: A Closer Look at Vio- incomplete entries will not be printed. The "Clone: The Road to Dolly and 935-5285. takes place in the Dance Studio, lence Between Intimates." A Record is printed every Thursday during the school year, except holidays, and monthly Room 207 Mallinckrodt Center. program presented by Lisa during the summer. Tickets are $45 — the cost of Schelbe of the Family Violence feeding and sheltering one woman Coalition, beginning at 7 p.m. in for one night — and are available East Lounge, Eliot Residence Hall. by calling O'Neal at 935-4475. Sept. 17 — "Violence in Gay Sports Section Proceeds will go to local groups and Lesbian Relationships." A working to end relationship abuse. panel discussion, starting at 7 p.m.

ta e on A reception will follow in the Women's Building Formal Football B( !drS OPen ^ Macalester College in and champic mship games slated featuring a question-and-answer Lounge. in Oprif C Saturday's first game at 11 am. for Saturday, Sept. 5. 1998seas( Jll OCfJl. J before the Bears meet Gustavus Staring at a four -game road Adolphus at 1:30 p.m. DePauw VolleybS II on the road losing streak dat ing back to last and Gustavus Adolphus will play „, Campus Watch ,T c J ..11 r it JU 1 he women s volleyball team season, the footl >all team opens Sunday at 11 a.m. followed by begins its cm est to reclaim the The following incidents were reported to University Police from Aug. 24-31. its 108th season Saturday, Sept. 5, Macalester and WU. The game national cha mpionship this at Rose-Hulman Institute of with Macalester will be a rematch , , Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to t begins the 1998 call 935-5555. This release is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness Technology. The Bears, enjoying of last year's NCAA quarterfinal . „ , . i i ° i_ j. T* -. , season in Cr estview Hills, Ky., at and is available on the University Police Web site at rescomp.wustl.edu/~wupd. their finest deca dem school game, won by the Bears 2-1. the Thomas More College history with a 5; 6 The Bears will take Aug. 25 Aug. 31 1990s, have won 'sbfconEutive Men's soccer opens ^JSS College Fri., Sept. 4, 3:33 p.m. — A student reported 12:53 a.m. — University Police decisions over tl le Engineers After opening the season Tuesday, at 8:30 a.m. (EDT), followed by the theft of a computer and two responded to a student's report since the rivalry resumed in 1992. Sept. 1, at Maryville University, a matchup a gainst John Carroll video cameras, together valued of harassment by another Washington U. i S mens soccer 03011 e H H^H"" C 1° Clarke gets University a 110:30 a.m. opening contest a a at $3,225, which had been stolen student. The incident has been MiT i^ • g°°d chance to see where his Washington will battle host from summer storage in Park referred to the Judicial Adminis- Coach Larry Kir ldbom, who is squad stands mis weekend as the Thomas Mo re Saturday at noon Residence Hall. trator and the Office of Residen- beginning his 1( )th season on the Bears play in the highly competi- and then pla y again at either 2 Hilltop. tial Life. tive Wheaton College Invitational. or 4 p.m. ag linst Mt. St. Joseph, Aug.28 flPPPr tpam Besides top-ranked host and Ohio North ;rn, Wittenberg or University Police also responded to Women's s UUOCI IGdlll defending national champion Averett. Th< : Bears are looking 10:15a.m. — A student reported nine additional reports of theft, set to host CI3SSIC Wheaton College, the two-day to win their eighth national the theft of a bicycle worth $850 one additional report of bicycle tournament features seventh- championsh ip. from a rack on the north side of theft, four reports of vandalism, The women's so ccer... team , opens r, ranked i jr«t_' California T-U.Lutheran „ „ . „ Rubelmann Residence Hall. two reports of property damage, the 1998 season this weekend as . .. , ,-,.,,, . Compiled by Kev n Bergquist, director, sports UniversltTT and NoXT 13 Noon — A student reported the one harassing phone call report, it hosts the Was hington Univer- Y - Muhlenberg in{orrnatiori] and Keith Jenkins, asst. director, theft of a bicycle valued at $720 one report of a suspicious person, sity Classic Satu rdav and College. The Bears open the sports informatic n. For up-to-date news ,', tourney Friday, Sept. 4, vs. about Washingto n University's athletics from a rack on the east end of one liquor violation and three Sunday, Sept. 5 t P and o, at hrancis Muhlenberg with the consolation program, access the Bears' Web site at Simon Hall. auto accidents. Field. DePauw Jniversity will ° rescomp.wustl.e Ju/-athletics/. 6 RECORD WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

Sarah Johnson, Nelson's got to go to the Mojave Desert; I classmate from Lexington, Ky., got to work on Steve Fossett's Solo Hewlett came to the University as an Spirit balloon flight; I've done a Students thrive in engineering major. "I've always lot of computer work; right now loved nature," she said, "but I I'm working on the floodplain interdisciplinary program really didn't think I could make project with the Missouri — from page 1 much of a career out of it, Department of Conservation. honestly. I came here thinking I Without Hewlett, maybe if I was first two years — with an should put in my four years of lucky, I might have gotten a job as emphasis on the first year ■— that college and find a good job. I a lackey in a lab, cleaning test not only gets students ready to go didn't realize the extent of things tubes." into their major but also excites you can do in this field. The field work also has hooked them about learning," said "It's not just eating granola, Heather Brouillet, a sophomore Raymond E. Arvidson, Ph.D., hugging trees and saving whales," from Bloomington, 111. "It's one professor and chair of the Johnson continued. "There's a lot thing for the professor to stand in Department of Earth and of science involved — some of the class and say, 'The earth is very Planetary Sciences in Arts and purist science you can get. When I dynamic and when a flood Sciences and project leader for the first started, I didn't realize how happens the ecosystem changes Hewlett environmental program. and adjusts.' It's totally different to In the fall, first-year students m be able to go out and actually see begin to explore environmental firsthand. questions through a central "It's not just eating "My whole view of environ- interdisciplinary course, "Land granola, hugging trees mentalism and environmental Dynamics and the Environment: studies has completely changed Scientific, Cultural, Policy and and saving whales. since I've been in the Hewlett Ethical Perspectives." The course There's a lot of science Program," said Brouillet, who is team-taught by Arvidson and admits to being called an "eco- two of his three Hewlett col- involved — some of freak" in high school. "You used to leagues from Arts and Sciences: the purist science think of 'Save the whales' and Glenn D. Stone, Ph.D., associate 'Stop the big polluters' — but professor of anthropology, and you can get." with Hewlett, you really get the William R. Lowry, Ph.D., associate SARAH JOHNSON big picture. There's a lot more professor of political science. J. behind it. Claude Evans, Ph.D., associate "When I originally came to the professor of philosophy is the University, I thought I'd either fourth Hewlett team member. intense and in-depth the program study politics or I'd do science. is. Because it does sound like, And then I realized that there's Books to boots 'Wow, free trips! Let's go to no reason I can't put the two Students also take a specially Hawaii, let's go to the Mojave!' But together." designed section of "English it really is intense. I learned so That enthusiasm is infectious. Composition" — a course much going to the Mojave — I "There was tremendous response required for all freshmen — that had to cut back my term paper to this year for the Hewlett Pro- draws from authors concerned 28 pages." gram," said Susan Rollins, Students enrolled in the Hewlett Program in Environmental Studies with nature and the environment. assistant dean in Arts and Sciences make their way up a sand dune in the Mojave Desert. Last spring, In addition to regular course Faculty mentoring and director of the program. "We the students evaluated environmental degradation of the desert and offerings, Hewlett students also Working side by side with senior had many more students inter- the formation of the new Mojave National Preserve. are free to select a companion faculty members like Arvidson, ested than we had room for." course, designed to deepen Stone, Lowry and Evans is one of Sparked by the successful understanding in a particular the major perks of the program, environmental pilot, Hewlett is field. Books turn to boots with according to the students. expanding into two new areas University continues climb in field trips to the Cahokia Mounds; "Often when you're a freshman, this fall: the oak-hickory forests of the it seems you get stuck in huge • The Hewlett Program in U.S. News' national rankings Ozarks; and Jameson Island, an lecture classes and you don't get to American Culture Studies, with agricultural floodplain along the know the professors that closely," an emphasis on the Lewis and Not only is Washington of 17. Also in the 13th spot this Missouri River. said Brian Ebel, a sophomore from Clark Expedition, and University among the nation's year are the Massachusetts In the spring, the hands get Chesterfield, Mo. "But with • The Hewlett Program in the top 20 best universities, it's one of Institute of Technology and even dirtier. Though Evans Hewlett, there's a sort of mentor- Study of the Mind-Brain, which the best values, according to U.S. Clarkson and Columbia universi- teaches an introductory course on ship that develops right away. will consider psychological, News & World Report's 12th ties. environmental ethics, the bulk of "For example, this summer, biological and philosophical annual "America's Best Colleges" The best value category rates the work shifts to hands-on case Professor Arvidson offered me a perspectives. guidebook, released Aug. 24. schools that offer a high-quality studies. Included is a spring-break job working on projects in the lab "In my opinion, we need to do Among more than 200 national education at a reasonable cost. The field trip to the Mojave Desert in — which is a pretty rare opportu- things like this to be more universities, the weekly news best value rankings were devised to California or to the Four Corners nity for someone who just finished competitive," Arvidson said. magazine ranked Washington provide a realistic measure of where area of the Southwest. his freshman year. "What makes Washington University 16th, tied with Emory students can get the best education Sophomores work with "I know a lot of my other University the place to come to, University. In the best value for their money. mentors and focus on individual friends who went to other schools compared to the others? category, the University ranked The methodology uses three and collaborative research didn't get near these opportuni- "My impression is that no 13th. Both rankings represent a variables: ratio of quality to price, projects. This year, fieldwork ties," Ebel continued. "They were other school is doing what we're rise on the list from last year's percentage of all undergraduates at includes a between-semesters still busing tables, helping at day doing in the way that we're doing rankings. the school receiving grants meeting project in Hawaii. camps, working retail at the mall. I it," he said. Among the best national students' financial needs during the universities, Washington Univer- 1997-98 academic year and the sity moved up one spot from last percentage of a school's total costs year's ranking of 17. In general, covered by the average need-based University settles suit to stop business from using its name the top college rankings are grant to undergraduates. Washington University has University" came to the attention institution of higher education." derived from data gathered from Other notables for Washington settled a suit filed in Federal of officials here about a year ago In the legal action taken under each institution, which are broken University in the guidebook are: District Court to stop a Pennsyl- following a series of ads in federal and state trademark laws down into categories and assigned • Ninth-place ranking among vania-based for-profit business internationally distributed and other statutes, Washington a weight reflecting the magazine's national universities for faculty from using its name, according to publications. Faculty and adminis- University sought to prevent the judgments about which measures resources; Vice Chancellor and General trative offices began to receive so-called "Washington University" of quality matter most. The • Third among the top 50 Counsel Michael R. Cannon. The inquiries from alumni, prospective from using its name. institutions are ranked against national universities for highest details of the settlement are students and others asking if the "Unauthorized use of WU's their peer group based on their percent of classes with fewer than confidential, but the consent advertisements referred to this name confuses and misleads the composite weighted score. The 20 students (74 percent; tied with judgment entered by the court institution or some other entity. international public and dilutes 228 national universities evalu- Cornell University); and prohibits the business and its Subsequent investigation led to the distinctive value of the ated emphasize faculty research • Low student-to-faculty ratio proprietors from using Washing- filing the suit. institution's name in communities and offer a full range of under- of 7:1. ton University's name or any International attention was we have served for generations," graduate majors plus master's and The guidebook is available on other name likely to be confused drawn to the case when the said the Internet response issued doctoral degrees. newsstands and at bookstores, and with Washington University. military regime of Burma by M. Fredric Volkmann, vice The 1999 best values ranking all rankings are available on the The Pennsylvania for-profit's (Myanmar) claimed, in a series of chancellor for public affairs. for the University marks a four- magazine's Web site at use of the name "Washington Internet postings, that a friend of "Washington University is justly notch rise from last year's ranking www.usnews.com. the totalitarian government named proud of our faculty, students and "U Khin Shwe" had received an alumni, and we will oppose any honorary degree from "Washington effort to use our good name to Employment University." Supporters of a confuse the public." democratic Burma contacted As a result of the confusion, the Use the World Wide Web to obtain complete job descriptions. Go to cf6000.wustl.edu/hr/home (Hilltop)or medicine.wustl.edu/wumshr (Medical). Washington University to protest. story received attention in many In an Internet response, Washing- publications, including The New Costume Shop Editorial and Public Legal Assistant/ Payroll Services St. Louis, MO, 63110, ton University in St. Louis denied York Times, the Chronicle of Hilltop Supervisor (part time) Relations Assistant Legal Secretary Representative or call 362-7196. 990010 (part time) 990033 990063 the awarding of any such degree to Higher Education, the St. Louis 990048 Medical Secretary II Campus Assistant Director of Programmer Trainee Accountant 990049 990203 U Khin Shwe, noting that "our Post-Dispatch and a full-page Admissions 990011 990034 Information regarding Communications Medical Clerk II990218 institution has rigorous standards feature in the Philadelphia Inquirer. positions may be Director of Corporate Department Technician 1990050 Purchasing Assistant that our students and honorees "We are pleased to have been obtained in the Office Relations 990013 Secretary 990037 Research Assistant Campus of Human Resources, I 990230 must satisfy before conferral of able to resolve this litigation Director, Overseas Regional Director of 990051 Room 130, West This is a partial list of Senior Analyst Programs 990014 Development degrees or other recognition." promptly and in a manner which Department positions at the School 990231 Campus. If you are not 990039 Funding and Secretary 990052 of Medicine. The Internet response went on prohibits misuse of our name to a WU staff member, Senior Departmental Development Secretary/Technical Employees: Contact call 935-9836. Staff Research Technician Accounting Assistant to note that the other so-called confuse students, scholars, alumni, Assistant 990015 Typist (part time) the medical school's members call 990053 990240 "Washington University" was a employers and the international 935-5906. Department 990040 Department of Human Administrative Aide Purchasing Assistant Secretary 990022 Administrative Resources at "for-profit business with its community," said Cannon. "The Secretary 980321 990054 I 990249 Secretary 990041 362-7196. External Senior Project 'administration center' in Hawaii University does not file lawsuits Support Services Computer/Audio- candidates: Submit Secretary II 990259 Leader 990029 Administrative Assistant 980339 Video Technician resumes to the Office and its 'student communication lightly, but felt in this instance that Assistant 990044 of Human Resources, Network Technician I Director of Library Assistant- 990056 990329 and registration center' in Pennsyl- a forceful, rapid response was Archives 990032 Financial Analyst 4480 Clayton Ave.. Information Mechanic 990058 vania. To the best of our knowl- required to protect the enormous Tethnology 980340 990047 Campus Box 8002. Social Worker/Family Mechanic 990059 Therapist 990359 edge, it is not an accredited good will attached to our name." record.wustl.edu WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS September 3, 1998 7 Notables

the Liberal Arts." Ellis recently the Hearing Rehabilitation and "A Bag of FSEDIT Tricks" at the program in architecture. Noero's completed a nine-year term on Cochlear Implant Program in the annual Statistical Analysis System lecture was titled "The Ghost of Of note the college's Board of Directors, Department of Otolaryngology, (SAS)Users Group International Culture: Reasserting First Prin- including six years as the board's and Tom Conran, Ph.D., adjunct Conference in Nashville, Tenn. Carrie Baker Brachmann, Ph.D., ciples." Other lectures to be vice chair.... professor at Saint Louis Univer- This group shares ideas on using published in the series are by a postdoctoral fellow in molecular Eric S. Meadows, a fourth-year sity, presented their qualitative SAS software to organize and internationally renowned Italian biology and pharmacology, has graduate student in the Division of research study in progress, titled analyze research data. Morgan architect and designer Paolo received a three-year postdoctoral Biology and the Biomedical "The Influence of Personal Beliefs also has been elected to the Board fellowship from the Cancer Rizzatto and Pritzker Prize- Sciences Program in Bioorganic in the Adaptation of Hearing of Directors for the Midwest SAS winning architect Fumihiko Maki. Research Fund of the Damon Chemistry, has received an Loss," to the Summer Institute of Users Group. Maki recently was selected design Runyon-Walter Winchell Founda- American Chemical Society (ACS) the Academy of Rehabilitative tion. The foundation awarded 14 architect for the University's fellowship. The Division of Audiology. The annual convention proposed Visual Arts and Design Runyon-Winchell fellowships to Organic Chemistry of the ACS was held in Lake Geneva, Wis.... outstanding young scientists Center. annually awards 19 fellowships to Jo Ellen Lewis, J.D., visiting conducting research relevant to To press third- and fourth-year U.S. assistant professor of legal the study of cancer and the search Guidelines for submitting copy: graduate students. Meadows' writing, served as the opening The School of Architecture is for cancer causes, mechanisms, award, sponsored by Procter and speaker and moderator for a publishing a new series, "Lectures Send your full name, complete title(s), therapies and prevention. department(s), phone number and highest- Gamble Co., will support his work symposium on "Environmental on Paper," consisting of essays Brachmann, who works in the earned degree(s), along with a description of in the laboratory of George W. Concerns in Residential Real based on lectures delivered at the your noteworthy activity, to Notables, c/o David laboratory of Ross L. Cagan, Gokel, Ph.D., professor of Estate," hosted by the Saint Louis school. The first was delivered by Moessner, Campus Box 1070, or e-mail Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular biology and pharmacol- University School of Public Jo Noero, the Ruth and Norman [email protected]. Items molecular biology and pharma- must not exceed 75 words. For information, ogy, during the 1998-99 academic Health and sponsored by the Moore Professor of Architecture cology, studies factors required call 935-5293. year. The award criteria are Environmental Protection Agency. and director of the graduate for spatial regulation of pro- research accomplishment, Lewis and Ann Davis Shields, grammed cell death.... academic record and career J.D., visiting assistant professor of Dorsey D. Ellis Jr., J.D., potential. legal writing, presented a talk on professor of law and former dean the law school's legal analysis and of the School of Law, served as Law school appointments: Three writing program, which empha- commencement speaker for sizes process-oriented versus Maryvdlle (Tenn.) College and was named to dean roles, five selected as directors product-oriented teaching.... presented with an honorary Speaking of Derek P. Morgan, statistical doctor of laws degree. Ellis, who Dean Daniel L. Keating, J.D., has Susan M. Binzer, coordinator data analyst in the Division of graduated from Maryville in 1960, announced new appointments New appointments and rehabilitative audiologist for Biostatistics, presented a paper on at the School of Law in external spoke on "What's 'Liberal' about David M. Becker, J.D. associate relations, external affairs, admis- dean for external relations sions, business office, graduate and joint degree programs and Serena E Yee director of information resources. external affairs Obituaries David M. Becker, the Joseph Janet L. Bolin, J.D. assistant H. Zumbalen Professor of the Law dean for admissions and of Property, a 1973 Founders Day financial aid Herbert £. Metz, associate professor Jane Allen Ritter Award honoree and recipient of G. Peter Milne assistant dean the first Law Alumni Association for administration and business emeritus of drama and English Former music Distinguished Teacher Award in operations 1988, is well-known among law Michele W. Shoresman, Ph.D. Herbert E. Metz, professor 1972, he also was named associate instructor, pianist school alumni and has been active director of graduate and joint emeritus of drama and of professor in performing arts, Jane Allen Ritter, an applied in alumni and development degree programs English in Arts and Sciences, died where he headed the drama matters. music instructor at the Dora R. Bertram director of of complications stemming from division. In 1973, he became Becker will assist Keating with University from 1990 to 1994, public services heart failure Tuesday, Aug. 25, associate professor of English. died of pneumonia Friday, alumni relations and will continue Wei Luo, J.D. director of 1998, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in Metz was named associate Aug. 21,1998, at Barnes-Jewish teaching a double section of technical services St. Louis. He was 77. professor emeritus of Hospital. She was 70 and lived in property law. Becker, who joined Metz taught literature drama and of English in University City. the law faculty in 1963, received a and drama at the 1991 but continued A concert pianist, Allen was bachelor's degree magna cum laude Michele W. Shoresman, University for 40 years. teaching part time until internationally acclaimed and from Harvard University in 1957 previously director of overseas He directed dozens of 1995. served as a soloist with the and a law degree in 1960 from the programs in the College of Arts productions for the A native of New York St. Louis and Baltimore sympho- University of Chicago Law School. and Sciences, will continue to serve Performing Arts City, Metz earned a nies. A tireless teacher who gave Serena F. Yee, formerly as adjunct associate professor in Department in Arts and bachelor's degree from lessons seven days a week, she had assistant director of admissions for East Asian studies in Arts and Sciences, including his the City University of hundreds of pupils, who collec- the law school, succeeds Lisa Sciences. own original plays "The New York in 1942 and tively won virtually every prize in Ottolini, who stepped down as In her new post at the law school, Artificial Princess" — following a three- Metz: taught drama their field. director of external affairs to Shoresman will work with a faculty (1959) and "Romance for 40 years year stint in the U.S. Air pursue a master's degree at the steering committee to help identify Language" (1973). Force during World War George Warren Brown School of ways to market and strengthen "Herb was one of the most II — a master's degree from the Social Work. existing graduate and joint degree popular and effective teachers University of Iowa in 1949. Harold E. Thayer Yee's primary responsibilities programs at the law school. we've ever had," said Henry I. A memorial service will be held include promoting the external Shoresman, who joined the Schvey, Ph.D., professor and chair in Graham Chapel at a later date. Former trustee, visibility of the law school and its University administration in 1990, of performing arts. "He personified Metz is survived by his partner, civic leader faculty, coordinating the produc- received a bachelor's degree in the values of modesty, integrity, David E. Belmont. tion of law school publications 1971, a master's degree in 1974 and generosity and, above all, passion Memorial contributions can be Harold E. Thayer, who served and assisting with various alumni a doctorate in 1989 — all from the for the theater that we hope to made to the Herbert E. Metz Fund on the University's Board of gatherings. University of Illinois at Urbana- instill in our students." for the Performing Arts Depart- Trustees from 1967 to 1979, died Yee, who joined the law school Champaign. Metz joined the University in ment at Washington University, of cancer Sunday, Aug. 23,1998, administration in 1995, received a In information resources, Philip 1955 as an instructor in speech in c/o the Performing Arts Depart- at Missouri Baptist Medical bachelor's degree from Loyola C. Berwick, J.D., associate dean, has the Department of English. He ment, Washington University, Center in Town and Country. He University of New Orleans in 1989 reorganized the department, became assistant professor in 1962 Campus Box 1108, One Brookings was 86. and currently is pursuing a juris creating three directorships in and associate professor in 1969. In Dr., St. Louis, MO 63130-4899. Thayer headed Mallinckrodt doctorate degree here. addition to current Multi-Media Inc., from 1960 to 1982, ushering Additionally, two current Manager Darryl Barker. the health care and chemical firm directors will become assistant Dora R. Bertram, formerly Phillip Venable, assistant professor through two decades of unprec- deans in recognition of their assistant law librarian in electronic edented growth. He also was excellent service to the law school. resources/reference, will be emeritus of clinical ophthalmology known as a unflagging worker on Janet L. Bolin, who joined the law responsible for circulation, refer- behalf of several charitable and school administration in 1994, ence and collection management. Howard Phillip Venable, M.D., years and briefly headed the now- community organizations, from previously served as assistant dean Bertram, who joined the law I assistant professor emeritus dosed Homer G. Phillips Hospital. the Boy Scouts of America to and director of career services at library staff in 1990, received a of clinical ophthalmology and In 1994, Venable was awarded the Civic Progress. De Paul University College of Law bachelor's degree from Washington visual sciences, died after a long Outstanding Humanitarian in Chicago. She received a University in 1985 and a master's illness Saturday, Aug. 8,1998, at Service Award from the Ameri- bachelor's degree from Florida degree from the Graduate School St. Luke's Hospital in Chester- can Academy of Ophthalmology. State University in Tallahassee in of Library and Information Science field. He was 85. A native 1977 and a law degree in 1989 at the University of Illinois at Venable, who joined the of Windsor, James A. Wood from De Paul University College Urbana-Champaign in 1987. She University in 1958, was the first Ontario, of Law, where she was articles currently is a juris doctorate African-American member of the Venable Former instructor editor of the Journal of Health and candidate at the law school. faculty. He established the Katie earned a of medicine Hospital Law. Wei Luo, formerly assistant law and Howard Phillip Venable bachelor's G. Peter Milne is a retired U.S. librarian in acquisitions/serials and Student Research Fund in degree in James A. Wood, M.D., who Air Force colonel, who, prior to reference, will be responsible for Ophthalmology, providing zoology and served as a clinical instructor joining the law school administra- cataloging, serials and acquisitions. stipends for a summer research a medical of medicine from 1957 to 1994, tion in 1995, served as deputy Luo, who joined the law library program for minority students. degree from died after a long illness Sunday, director of the Defense Mapping staff in 1997, received a bachelor's He and his wife supplied students Wayne State Aug. 9,1998, at Bethesda West Agency Aerospace Center in degree from China's Xiamen Venable: Established with many of the necessities to University in student research fund Nursing Home in Ellisville. He St. Louis and deputy chief of staff University in 1984, a law degree complete the program, including Detroit. was 72. for plans and programs at the U.S. from Lewis and Clark Northwest- microscopes and housing. Venable also played the A past president of the Air Force Academy. He received a ern School of Law in Portland, Venable retired from the medical trumpet professionally for 25 Washington University Medical bachelor's degree from the U.S. Air Ore., in 1991 and a master's degree school in 1987. years. Center Alumni Association, Wood Force Academy in 1967, a master's from the Graduate School of Throughout his career, he Among the survivors are a received a medical degree from of public administration from Library and Information Science at worked to recruit African daughter, Louise M. Venable the medical school in 1949. He Golden Gate University in 1974 the University of Washington in Americans to become eye Gregory of San Francisco; a also was in private practice for 37 and a master's of operations Seattle in 1993. doctors. He also had a private brother, Allen P. Venable of years in Clayton and Town and research from the Air Force The third directorship has not practice in Ballwin for many Tacoma, Wash.; and a grandson. Country. Institute of Technology in 1979. yet been filled. 8 RECORD WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS record.wustl.edu Washington People

accepted the position and respon- ment within the department in sibilities of department chair. which the faculty can learn and That day when Ackerman was grow," d'Avignon said. "He's a real lying in the NMR machine, if it motivator, particularly for people had been possible to make an willing to take on a challenge." image of his motivation and During his tenure as chair, the interests, it would show a man chemistry department increas- deeply committed to his research ingly is embracing the interface as well as to the University's between disciplines. Ackerman chemistry department. On the believes in providing undergradu- surface, it may seem these two ate students with a solid core of commitments are at odds, but training in the fundamentals of Ackerman is drawn equally to chemistry, as well as an apprecia- both. That's because he is the kind tion for the application of of man who likes to look deeply chemistry at its interfaces with into things and investigate the biology, physics and medicine. relationship of one process to "One of the things our faculty another, whether inside the brain has been very much involved in is of a laboratory mouse or within integrating chemistry experiments his department. that have a strong life sciences flavor into the lower division A great team undergraduate laboratory "I've enjoyed both jobs enough curriculum," he said. "The 21st that trying to juggle a lot of century will continue to experi- disparate things has been a ence a revolution in biological worthwhile challenge and a terrific sciences. For our students, it is learning experience," he said. "It's important that they take courses Joseph Ackerman, Ph.D., discusses nuclear magnetic resonance imaging with (from left) graduate been exciting, and I'm reasonably that not only present fundamen- student Bill Spees and undergraduate chemistry majors Kristi Clark, a junior, and senior Kevin Maddox. good at juggling multiple responsi- tal, core concepts of chemistry but bilities. However, the most that also show the direct applica- important responsibility I have is tion of that chemistry to medi- to hire good people, whether they cine, biology or the life sciences." Exploring chemistry's frontiers be administrative staff or faculty His belief in and support of an members. We have very competent interdisciplinary approach fits people at all levels in the depart- neatly into Ackerman's own Not many scientists have over time. That gives you much, ment. We have a great team." experience. In addition to his interdisciplinary the opportunity to much stronger statistical data." One of the people Ackerman position in Arts and Sciences, pioneer Joseph experience firsthand one hired was Andre d'Avignon, Ackerman holds joint appoint- of their own experiments. Pioneering experiments director of the University's High ments at the School of Medicine Ackerman applies After all, they can't swab them- Ackerman received an under- Resolution Nuclear Magnetic as research professor of chemistry selves on a petri dish, dissect a graduate degree in chemistry Resonance Facility. in medicine and professor of technology to part of their body or alter their from Boston University and his "Andre has run one of our key radiology. genetic makeup. But Joseph J. H. doctoral degree in physical instrumental — or equipment — image chemical Ackerman, Ph.D., professor and chemistry from Colorado State centers in the chemistry depart- An exciting time chair of the Department of University. Following a year of ment," he said. "It is very impor- Collaborating with students, post- processes Chemistry in Arts and Sciences, post-doctoral study at Colorado tant to chemists of all types. Not doctoral fellows and faculty at knows exactly what it feels like to State, he won a National Insti- only has Andre's facility been a both campuses, Ackerman is BY CHARLES B. ADAMS lie inside a powerful nuclear tutes of Health Fellowship for model for other centers in the currently focusing his research in magnetic resonance (NMR) advanced study at Oxford department, but other centers in three main efforts. One is a machine. University in Britain. During his the University have studied it to project to explore a long-standing "A number of years ago, I had fellowship, he participated in see how he has managed resources question: Why does it appear that some imaging techniques I pioneering NMR experiments and operation." cells at a lower pH are consider- wanted to try out," Ackerman with living systems. D'Avignon pays equally high ably more sensitive to heat than said. "I got into a high-field NMR "I was trained as a physical compliments back to his chair. cells of normal pH? As the project imaging machine at the National chemist and became very "When I came here 14 years ago, nears completion, Ackerman is Institutes of Health in Bethesda hopeful it might advance cancer and laid in it for about four hours therapies that would lower the pH while they did experiment after Joseph J. H. Ackerman, Ph.D. of a tumor, thus increasing the experiment. It was a lot of fun. I therapeutic efficacy of hyperther- understood the physics taking Born Tulsa, Okla. Position Professor and chair of the mia. place, and I could hear the Department of Chemistry in Arts and Another Ackerman project that machine's field gradient coils Education B.S., chemistry, Boston Sciences, research professor of is just getting started involves pulsing. I came away even more University; Ph.D., physical chemistry in medicine and professor developing high-resolution NMR convinced that NMR would be a chemistry, Colorado State of radiology in the School of imaging techniques that are dominant technology well into University; advanced study, Oxford Medicine suitable for use on transgenic the 21st century." University, under a National mice — mice whose genome, or NMR imaging, also known as Institutes of Health Fellowship DNA pattern, has been altered in magnetic resonance imaging some way. (MRI) in medical parlance, "It is becoming clear that the involves placing the subject in a dominant experimental labora- strong magnetic field. The "He's... created an environment within the tory animal in the 21st century is instrument detects nuclear-spin probably going to be the resonance within the magnetic department in which the faculty can learn transgenic mouse," he said. "These field as radio signals. The signals and grow. He's a real motivator." mice can be expensive to produce are processed in computers and and maintain, making them turned into a spatial image similar ANDRE D'AVIGNON excellent subjects for non- to an X-ray image but containing invasive, non-destructive NMR far more information. In a related techniques. What we need are field, NMR spectroscopy, the interested at the end of my Ph.D. the main reason I came was higher resolution images of them, signals are processed to reveal studies and during my post- because of Joe. He was known as a and that's the direction our team information about molecular doctoral studies in the applica- 'rising star' in NMR," he said. is now heading." structure and dynamics. tion of physical chemistry — I Ackerman is known interna- The third area of research that Part of the reason that was doing NMR — to biological tionally for his contributions to Ackerman and his associates are Ackerman enjoys research systems, in particular living and development of NMR investigating is defining biophysi- involving NMR imaging and systems such as cultured cells, techniques for the study of intact cal events associated with cell spectroscopy is that it allows perfused organs and laboratory living systems. In recognition of injury. In particular, the team is scientists to look at the bodily research animals," he said. his contributions to the field of beginning what may be a long chemical processes of an intact "Magnetic resonance, which is NMR, Ackerman has received the journey toward helping physicians living specimen without being my specialty, has the valuable Gold Medal from the international distinguish between salvageable invasive or destructive. attribute of being nondestructive Society of Magnetic Resonance in cells and irreversibly damaged "With NMR, you can put a and noninvasive in principle. In Medicine (the society's highest and cells at the site of a stroke in the laboratory animal such as a practice it can be difficult to most-esteemed award); the brain. transgenic mouse in the machine, apply, but in principle one gets William Simpson Award for "I enjoy moving into new take your images or acquire the sample back undisturbed — Excellence in Experimental research areas," he said. "Advances spectra, then return it to its cage which is a really good thing if the Oncology from Wayne State in magnetic resonance technology unharmed," he said. "You can look sample is you!" University; the St. Louis Award now allow experiments barely at that same animal the next day Ackerman came to Washing- from the American Chemical dreamed of a decade ago. New and the day after that and so on. ton University as an assistant Society's St. Louis Section; and he discoveries and methods are You can, for example, follow professor in 1979. He was was recently made a Fellow of the coming at an astonishing rate. I treatment of a given animal over promoted to associate professor International Society for Magnetic can't imagine a more exciting time time or do a longitudinal study in 1985 and to full professor in Resonance in Medicine. to be pursuing NMR experiments with an entire sample population 1988. Not long after that, he "He's also created an environ- in the life sciences."