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Androgenic hair

C.H. Danforth and Mildred Trotter of the Department of Anatomy at Washington University did a study using army soldiers of European origin where they concluded that dark-haired white men are generally more hairy than fair-haired white men.

Beza Mahafaly Reserve

The Reserve was founded in 1975, when community leaders formed a partnership with the University of Madagascar (now Antananarivo), Washington University, and Yale University aiming to protect the forest.

Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology

The editors-in-chief are Gerhard A. Holzapfel (Center of Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Biomechanics, Graz University of Technology; School of Engineering Sciences, Department of Solid Mechanics, Royal Institute of Technology) and Larry A. Taber (Washington University).

CampusJ

CampusJ's staff of student reporters covered the Jewish news on thirty or more campuses, including American University, George Washington University, McGill, Northwestern, Rutgers and Washington University, by reporting for campus-specific school homepages (blogs).

Carol Sklenicka

Sklenicka was raised in Santa Maria, California, attended college California State Polytechnic College in San Luis Obispo and received a Ph. D. in English and American literature from Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied with Naomi Lebowitz, Stanley Elkin, and Howard Nemerov, in 1986.

Cartilage

Conversely, chondrostatin, an ingredient of cartilage, is being investigated by Washington University researchers for its potential ability to shrink breast and musculoskeletal tumors.

Cofactor Genomics

Upon graduation, Dr. Glasscock pursued his doctorate in Genetics at Washington University in St. Louis where he studied under Warren Gish, Ph.D., developer of the NCBI BLAST sequence analysis program.

Dennis Choi

Dennis W. Choi, M.D., Ph.D., (born in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was the Jones Professor and head of neurology at the Center for the Study of Nervous System Injury at Washington University in St. Louis He was part of the team that treated Christopher Reeve following the actor's notorious spinal cord injury.

Esther McCoy

She attended the Central College for Women, a preparatory school in Lexington, Missouri, prior to a college career which took her from Baker University, to the University of Arkansas, then to Washington University, and finally the University of Michigan.

Fred Rosenbaum

Rosenbaum earned a bachelor's degree at Washington University in St. Louis in 1968, and then studied the history of Nazi Germany as a Fulbright fellow in West Germany.

James Kendall Hosmer

From 1872 to 1874, he occupied the chair of English and German literature in the University of Missouri, and in 1874 was elected to a similar professorship in Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

James Main Dixon

From 1892 to 1901 he was professor of English literature at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. In 1903–1904 he was president of Columbia College, in Milton, Oregon.

Jim McKelvey

McKelvey began blowing glass as a teenager at Washington University and then studied briefly with master Lino Talgiapietra.

Lauren Ackerman

Ackerman received the Theodore Caldwell Janeway Medal of the American Radium Society; the Fred W. Stewart Award from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City; the Gold-Headed Cane Award from the American Association of Pathologists; the Distinguished Service Award from Washington University; the Prix de Paris Award from the Institute Gustave-Roussy in Villejuif, France; and the City of Paris Award from Paris, France.

Project Alpha

In 1979, James S. McDonnell, board chairman of McDonnell Douglas and believer in the paranormal, awarded a USD $500,000 grant to Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, for the establishment of the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research.

Vertical deflection traffic calming device

Compton began designs on the speed bump after noticing the speed at which motorists passed Brookings Hall at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was chancellor.

Washington University Hilltop Campus Historic District

Many of the exposition buildings were temporary in nature, but a number of permanent structures were built and are used by Washington University, which calls this area the Danforth Campus.


see also

Ashtar Ausaf Ali

Mr. Ali obtained a MCL in 1981 from George Washington University,Washington D.C and is a member of Phi Delta Phi International Legal Fraternity.

CCAS

Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, the liberal arts and sciences college of The George Washington University

Colonials

George Washington Colonials, the athletic teams of George Washington University

Douglas G. Stuart

Stuart coined the term "interphyletic awareness" during the organization (together with Sten Grillner (University of Stockholm and Paul Stein (Washington University, St. Louis) of three international conferences that brought together scientists working on various species, all followed by widely read symposium volumes.

Education in Spokane, Washington

Higher education institutions in Spokane include two private universities, Gonzaga and Whitworth, Washington State University and Eastern Washington University at the Riverpoint Campus, and the public Community Colleges of Spokane system as well as an ITT Tech campus.

Elaine Mardis

Prior to joining the Washington University faculty, she was a senior research scientist at Bio-Rad Laboratories in Hercules, California.

Frederick Hall

Frederic Aldin Hall (1854–1925), chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis

Future of American Democracy Foundation

Board members include Jonathan Brent, Editorial Director of Yale University Press; Norton Garfinkle, former Chairman of the George Washington University Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies; Thomas E. Mann of the Brookings Institution; Norman J. Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research; Hugh Price, formerly president of the National Urban League; Alan Wolfe of Boston College; and Ruth A. Wooden.

Gary Lee Nelson

He earned his composition doctorate at Washington University in Saint Louis, where he studied with Paul Pisk and Robert Wykes.

George Throop

George R. Throop (1882–1949), former chancellor of Washington University

Howard Lincoln Hodgkins

As a member of the very first class to graduate from the Washington High School, Howard Lincoln Hodgkins went on to attend the George Washington University’s Columbian College in the fall of 1878.

Howard M. Fish

In August 1963 he entered the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, and while there received a master's degree in international affairs from The George Washington University.

Huxley College

Huxley College of the Environment, an interdisciplinary environmental college at Western Washington University.

Jerry Harvey

Jerry B. Harvey, management professor at The George Washington University

John H. Biggs

Biggs is currently a Director of the Boeing Company and JPMorgan Chase, Chairman of the J. Paul Getty Trust, and a trustee of Washington University, The Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, and the Santa Fe Opera.

Joseph Hoyt

Joseph Gibson Hoyt, the first chancellor and a professor of Greek at Washington University in St. Louis

Mosaic Whispers

In Spring 2012, the Whispers sang Change the World for Bill Nye and Washington University's Board of Trustees, as a part of the dedication to WUSTL's new Earth, Planetary, and Space Science Center.

National Cyber Security Hall of Fame

Carl Landwehr - Lead Research Scientist - CSPRI at George Washington University

#Carl Landwehr - Lead Research Scientist - CSPRI at George Washington University

Olkhovsky

Yuri Olkhovsky (b. 1930), US supporter of the Soviet dissident movement and retired professor of The George Washington University

Perry T. Rathbone

Rathbone also was instrumental in helping the German artist Max Beckmann move to America after the war by securing him a teaching position at Washington University.

Robert Lamberton

Robert D. Lamberton, Professor of Classics at Washington University in St. Louis and translator of Thomas the Obscure

Rodgers Townsend

The agency has also done work for AmerenUE, Anheuser Busch, Ardent Reels, Con-way Freight, Express Scripts, Maritz, Nawgan, PBS, Scottrade, St. Louis Children's Hospital, United States Marine Corp, Washington University in St. Louis and White Wave Foods.

Sigur Center for Asian Studies

It was named for Gaston J. Sigur, Jr. (1924-1995), a Japan specialist whose career included positions at the National Security Council and the United States Department of State, as well as at George Washington University.

Sunil Hirani

After graduation from Washington University (St. Louis), Hirani worked at SAIC and Lockheed on the Space Station program.

Terry Wahls

Dr. Wahls completed her medical doctorate from The University of Iowa in 1982 and accepted a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology from Barnes Hospital, Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri.

Thomas Carroll

Thomas H. Carroll (1914–1964), President of the George Washington University

Tony Taylor

Tony Taylor (basketball), college basketball player for George Washington University, see 2010-11 and 2011–12 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season

William Eliot

William Greenleaf Eliot (1811–1887), American educator, Unitarian clergyman, and founder of Washington University