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  Students Excel: Arts & Sciences undergraduates made another impressive showing in their annual quest for prestigious national scholarships and fellowships, including: three students receiving the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, three receiving the Morris K. Udall Scholarship, and two being named recipients of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship.
Russert to Give Commencement Address: Tim Russert, managing editor and moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press" and political analyst for "NBC Nightly News" and the "Today" show, will give the 2007 Commencement address. The University's 146th Commencement will begin at 8:30 a.m., May 18, in Brookings Quadrangle.
Presidents of 12 Premier International Universities to Meet at Washington University: For the first time in the United States, the presidents of 12 premier universities from Asia and the Middle East will gather at Washington University May 4-7 to discuss ways their institutions are addressing global energy and environmental concerns. The International Symposium on Energy and the Environment is sponsored by the McDonnell International Scholars Academy.
Discovery Provides Key to Improving Blood Circulation, Healing: Scientists have uncovered a new biomedical technique that could increase blood flow to alleviate problems associated with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and many surgical procedures. They found that blocking the action of a blood-clot-associated protein turns up the effect of a biologically produced gas that can open blood vessels and increase blood flow.
China’s Earliest Humans Put "Out of Africa" Theory to the Test: Researchers in Arts & Sciences and the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing have been studying a 40,000-year-old early modern human skeleton found in China and have determined that the "out of Africa" dispersal of modern humans may not have been as simple as once thought.
 Wireless Sensors Limit Earthquake Damage: An earthquake engineer at Washington University has successfully performed the first test of wireless sensors in the simulated structural control of a model laboratory building. Her demonstration is the first step toward implementing wireless sensors for structural control in real buildings and structures, enabling less manpower requirements and far less remodeling of existing structures.  Business Students Offer Warren Buffett Advice: It could be every aspiring financier's biggest dream: Spend a few hours with Warren Buffett, the "Oracle of Omaha," toss him an investment suggestion or two, and have some laughs over a steak lunch. That dream became reality for 54 MBA students at the John M. Olin School of Business, who traveled to Nebraska to visit with the investment genius and second-richest person in the world.
Undergraduate Paves Way for NASA Mars Mission: Earth and planetary scientists in Arts & Sciences are paving the way for a smooth landing on Mars for the Phoenix Mission scheduled to launch in August this year by making sure the set-down literally is not a rocky one. Lynchpin of this meticulous, painstaking task of finding a smooth landing is a 21-year-old junior earth and planetary sciences major from Jefferson City, Missouri, Tabatha Heet.
Students Improve Madagascar Commune: Five students and one faculty member boarded a plane for Madagascar in March, but they weren't looking for exotic beaches. The purpose of the trip was to balance economic, social, environmental, and political factors in a 10-village area that includes about 9,000 rural Malagasy people."Our education system over the past generation has focused on the transmission of data from one brain to another as if a child is nothing more than a receptacle for data... America’s historic greatness has come from its creativity and taking on problems and solving them in ways that have never been considered before... When education does more to diminish one’s creativity rather than to stimulate it, we have a broken education system."
—Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, in his Assembly Series address titled “From Hope to Higher Ground” on April 4, 2007
Ramesh K Agarwal, Ph.D., the William Palm Professor of Engineering, will be presented the Gold Award by the Royal Aeronautical Society in London on July 11.
Hank Klibanoff, who graduated from Washington University in 1971 with a bachelor's degree in English, and Gene Roberts won the Pulitzer Prize in history for their book, titled "The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation." Klibanoff is managing news editor for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Ric Lessmann, Washington University baseball coach, earned his 1,300th career win when the Bears defeated Westminster College 5-0 on April 5.
Zeuler R. Lima, Ph.D., assistant professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has won the 2007 Bruno Zevi Prize from the Bruno Zevi Foundation in Rome for his extended essay "Towards Simple Architecture" about the Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi.
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