Thorp installed as Levi-Montalcini Distinguished University Professor
H. Holden Thorp, PhD (left), provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, was installated by Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton as the inaugural holder of the Rita Levi-Montalcini Distinguished University Professorship during a ceremony held Oct. 14 in Knight Hall’s Emerson Auditorium. Thorp’s installation address was titled “Back to the Future: Accomplishment and Aspiration at Washington University.”
Remembering Rita Levi-Montalcini
Members of the
Washington University in St. Louis community will gather at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, in the Ginkgo
Room of Olin Library to remember Rita Levi-Montalcini, one of two women
from the university who won the Nobel Prize. The event, which is hosted
by the Woman’s Club of Washington University, is free and open to the
public.