Shirley K. Baker, dean of University Libraries and vice chancellor for information technology, has been appointed for a three-year term to the National Institutes of Health’s PubMed Central National Advisory Committee. She has also agreed to serve a two-year term on the Advisory Board for the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, a collaborative program of Canadian universities to provide access to digital publications for the academic community nationwide. …
The WUSTL Model United Nations club recently was named “Best Small School Delegation” at a Model UN conference hosted by the University of Chicago. …
John E. McCarthy, Ph.D., professor of mathematics in Arts & Sciences, received a five-year, $270,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study “Operator Theory and Complex Geometry.” …
The Movement Science Program received recognition with the MENTOR Award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The award is presented to the school that received top reviews on its grant application and provides superior training to its pre-doctoral students. Only one school receives the MENTOR award each year.