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For more information, please contact [email protected]. ft^ sf VvkiiftLs tevuiit? nrT i c ,Q7 yOASH'O&roU (jO/vers/-/-y Mo&raiMuditmJ UiraryL1kr«rv ULI A3 0/ Indexed ARCHIVES jg Washington Z*3WASHINGTON' ■ UNIVERSITY' IN -ST- LOUS WCORD Vol. 12 No. 8/Oct. 15, 1987 NIH centennial celebration features Nobel winners This year the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is commemorating its 100th birthday and in honor of the occasion has selected Washington University as a centennial celebration site. The celebration, open to faculty, staff and students, will take place Fri- day, Oct. 23, in the Carl V. Moore Auditorium at the School of Medi- cine. The theme for the celebration is "Biomedical Research: Key to the Nation's Health." A scientific program will be of- fered beginning at 8:45 a.m. It will be moderated by Nobel Prize winner Daniel Nathans, M.D., university pro- fessor of molecular biology and ge- netics and senior investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Nathans is a 1954 graduate of Washington's School of Medicine. The morning program speakers, all Nobel Prize winners, are Michael S. Brown, M.D., the Paul J. Thomas Professor of Genetics in molecular genetics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, dis- cussing "Genetic Defenses Against Heart Attacks "; David H. Hubel, M.D., the John F. Enders Professor in Encompassing everything from antique cars, to marching bands, to pick-up trucks carrying elaborate floats, the annual parade around the Washington neurobiology at Harvard Medical University community continues to be a Homecoming favorite. The parade will start at noon Oct. 24 from the Wohl Center parking lot. School, discussing "Eye, Brain and Perception"; and Arthur Kornberg, M.D., professor of biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medi- cine, discussing "Mechanism of Ini- Homecoming tiation of Chromosome Replication." Kornberg did a major portion of his Nobel Prize-winning work at Wash- Author A.E. Hotchner returns to lead parade ington. The afternoon session of the A.E. Hotchner, author, playwright north to Delmar; Delmar east to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. celebration, beginning at 2:30, will and Paul Newman's friend and busi- Skinker; Skinker south to Forsyth; Hotchner has written several be devoted to issues of public policy ness partner, will return to his alma and conclude in the Brookings Hall books and plays and is best known that affect the future of the National mater as honorary grand marshal of parking lot, One Brookings Drive. for his 1966 international best-selling Institutes of Health. The program, the Homecoming parade during Hotchner, a native of St. Louis, biography of Ernest Hemingway ti- which will be moderated by W Max- Homecoming '87 slated for Oct. 21- received a liberal arts and law degree tled Papa Hemingway: A Personal well Cowan, provost and executive 24. from the University in 1940. A Memoir. A former television play- vice chancellor of Washington, will "Every year, the Homecoming member of the William Greenleaf wright for Playhouse 90, he has include presentations by legislators Steering Committee tries to increase Eliot Society, he is the founder of adapted major Hemingway works to closely involved with science policy. our school spirit,'' says Chuck Yahng, the A.E. Hotchner Playwriting and television, including For Whom The Comments from Sammuel O. Thier, a junior in liberal arts, explaining the Play Production Fund in Performing Bell Tolls and The Killers. He also M.D., president of the Institute of event's theme, "Catch the Spirit!" Arts and the A.E. Hotchner Scholar- has written biographies of Sophia Medicine of the National Academy of "Homecoming is always a good time ships, both in arts and sciences. In Loren and Doris Day. Sciences, and a panel discussion will for the whole school to pull to- 1967, he received an alumni citation In 1982, Hotchner and Paul follow. gether, support the athletic teams from Washington. He is a former Throughout the day some 40 and just be proud of Washington member of the National Council for Continued on p. 4 posters will be on display depicting University," says Yahng, co-chairman research in progress at the School of of public relations for Homecoming Medicine. '87 with Amy Hull. Record-setting freshman enrollment The National Institutes of Health, an agency of the Department Other Homecoming highlights Fall enrollment figures released by establishment of the John B. Ervin include a football game between the Scholarship Program for black Amer- of Health and Human Services, pro- Washington University show a vides 80 percent of its more than 86 Washington University Bears and the record-setting freshman enrollment icans, have resulted in 71 black stu- Flying Dutchmen of Hofstra Univer- dents in this year's freshman class, billion annual budget to fund the of 1,297 — more than 100 students projects of nearly 20,000 scientists in sity (Hempstead, N.Y.); a soccer game above the projected class size, ac- an 87 percent increase over the pre- between Washington and the Univer- vious year. 1,300 research institutions in the cording to E.B. McDonald, acting United States and abroad. In 1939 sity of Chicago; pep rally; bonfire; dean of admissions. "Our larger-than-usual freshman Washington University received its tailgate party; and dance. class is unexpected, although we did Total enrollment of full-time day first NIH grant. The 82,500 grant was The football game will be held receive more than 7,000 applications students is 8,698, an increase of 328 awarded to Edmund V. Cowdry for at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, at for admission," McDonald said. "We over the fall 1986 enrollments. In all, his research on leprosy. In 1986 Francis Field and the soccer game admitted a slightly higher percentage undergraduate enrollment totals alone, the University received ap- will start at 10 a.m. Oct. 24 at the of applicants than last year, but pro- 4,702 as compared to 4,443 last year. proximately 874 million in NIH- same location. portionately, a far greater number of Graduate and professional enrollment funded grants. The parade will feature 16 floats climbed to 3,996, a slight increase these offers were accepted than in and a variety of marchers ranging over last year's figure of 3,927. previous years." from Girl Scout troops to Washing- Overall enrollments of daytime Washington's full-time enroll- ton's Pep Band. It will start at noon undergraduate, graduate, professional, ment has remained about the same on Oct. 24 at the Wohl Center park- and evening students is 10,700, an since the 1970s as part of an effort ing lot and proceed as follows: increase of 177 over last year. to focus on the quality of its stu- Wydown west to Big Bend; Big Bend Special efforts, including the dents, rather than quantity. Type A behavior, eating disorders among topics offered in workshops "Type A Behaviors: Facts and Fan 8 p.m. Cost is $25 a month. tasies" is the first workshop this fall "Teaching Your Kids About Sex," at the Washington University Psycho- Thursday, Nov. 5, 7 to 9 p.m. Cost is logical Service Center. Type A Behav- $15. ior is described as a fast-paced, "Making Marriage Work," an on- time-urgent, workaholic lifestyle that going therapy group for couples. The can lead to heart problems. first meeting of the weekly group is The workshop will meet Thurs- Monday, Nov. 9, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Cost day, Oct. 22, and Monday, Oct. 26, is $40 a month. from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The cost is $10. "Panic Support Group" for peo- All workshops are in Eads Hall. ple who experience sudden attacks Others include: of intense fear or apprehension in- "Practical Parenting" for parents cluding physical symptoms. The of children aged 5 to 12, offered on group will meet on four Mondays, six Sundays, Oct. 25 to Dec. 13 (ex- Nov. 23 to Dec. 14. Cost is $35- cept Nov. 22 and Dec. 6), 6 to 7:30 "Women in Unfulfilling Relation- p.m. Cost is $60. ships," an ongoing group based on "Eating Disorders Group," an the book, Women Who Love Too ongoing therapeutic and support Much. The group meets on Tuesdays, group for victims of anorexia nervosa 6:30 to 8 p.m. Cost is $30 a month. and/or bulimia. The first weekly Individual and family counseling meeting is Thursday, Oct. 29, 6:30 to also are available. Call 889-6555- Islamic society subject of talk Fazlur Rahman, Harold H. Swift Dis- Intellectual Tradition. tinguished Service Professor of Is- Rahman has served as a consul- lamic Thought at the University of tant to the government of Indonesia Chicago, will deliver the Islamic So- to "help assess the situation of Islam ciety Lecture at 11 a.m. Wednesday, there" and to advise on higher Is- Oct. 21, in Graham Chapel. lamic education. He was a consultant The lecture, titled "The Islamiza- to the State Department and the tion Process in the Contemporary White House in 1979-80.