Senior Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer
HBO Sports, Inc.
Chairman, Seigle's, Inc.
Chairman, Harbison Corporation
Retired President, Monsanto
Corporation
Former Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer
TIAA-CREF Trust Company
Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer
Harris Interactive, Inc.
Professor, University of
California, Hastings
Senior Vice President
General Counsel and Secretary
JC Penney Company, Inc.
Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig
Retired Elementary Teacher
Partner, Bryan Cave, LLP
Community Volunteer, Animal
Welfare & Humane Education
Co-Chairman and CEO
Lionsgate Entertainment
President, Corporate
& Institutional Services
National Trust Corporation
Retired Vice President, SEMCOR
Retired Internal
Medicine/Rheumatology
Rheumatology Associates
of Southern Florida
Partner, Piper Rudnick LLP
President and CEO, Fennoy
Consulting Group
GR00 GR03
Retired President
The DeMell Group
Chairman, President, and Chief
Executive Officer, Commerce
Bancshares, Inc.
Retired President and Chief
Executive Officer, Fuqua Enterprises
Retired President
Konneker Development Corporation
President & Chief Executive Officer
came to Washington University as a freshman,
she was more interested in performing arts
than in practical skills -- like balancing her
checkbook. But by the time she graduated,
she had made it all the way to infinite matrix
math, and her horizons had broadened
forever. Soon she had moved into a business
career, and today she is senior vice president
and chief financial officer of HBO Sports.
both strategically and creatively and, most
importantly, understand other points of view.
The results: we were able to pursue professional
degrees and positions with success," she
says. "Going through Washington University's
program taught us how to reason and write.
That is the real strength of Arts & Sciences."
new role: chair of the National Council for
Arts & Sciences. Previously vice chair of the
Council, she assisted her predecessor, Earle
H. Harbison, Jr., A.B.'48, chairman of the
Harbison Corporation and former president
and chief operating officer of Monsanto
Corporation, who served as chair for 18 years.
great skill, he led the group in advising Dean
Edward Macias, who built Arts & Sciences to
new prominence. "Earle did a tremendous
job in giving Arts & Sciences the respect
and renown that it has," says Thomas.
46-member Council during an important
transitional period. With Macias now
university provost, new Dean Gary Wihl
is making plans to continue building Arts
& Sciences and highlighting its educational
prominence. Twice a year, the Council
has meetings in St. Louis, at which they
assemble with the dean to advise, assist
entire country. It is a challenging time, yet her
lively, energetic members are just "chomping
at the bit to participate," she says. "Dean Wihl
wants interactivity and feedback from the
Council and I know he will get it, because this
dynamic group is not hesitant to state opinions."
She would like to increase and diversify its
membership, adding people who can also
spend time between meetings on Council
work. She will implement a new Council
structure, developed by the dean, consisting
of committees that deal with the educational
mission of Arts & Sciences, the university and
the public and the faculty in the 21st century.
entity within the University. A French major
recalls the French department; a history
major thinks of history. Encouraging graduates
to remember that they were part of a wide-
ranging liberal arts curriculum, she says, poses
a tough fund-raising challenge.
this broad curriculum. Before coming to the
University, he planned to major in physics,
but then became interested in literature,
graduating with a comparative literature
major and both a physics and French minor.
However, his physics background was still
strong enough that, as a new recruit in the
Teach For America program, he could jump
readily into a job as a middle school science
teacher in New York City.
"is one of the best programs of its kind in
the country and probably one of the best
in the world. It is the heart and soul of the
university."
Partner, L&M Equity
Participants, Ltd.
Executive Director
Lewis and Clark Foundation
President, Makovsky & Co., Inc.
Vice Chairman
Oxford Development Co.
Partner, Bryan Cave, LLP
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Taconic Investment Partners, LLC
Partner/Attorney
Kornstein Veisz Wexler & Pollard
President, Rettner Management/
Baron Asociates
Insurance Sales
Rosenthal Associates
Retired Vice President
Goldman Sachs & Co.
President and
Chief Executive Officer
National Jewish Medical
and Research Center
Group Executive Vice President
Mast Industries, Inc.
Senior Vice President
Business Affairs
HBO & Company
Vice Chairman
Gospel Music Channel
Partner, Schroeder Ventures
Senior Managing Director &
COO-Real Estate Group
The Blackstone Group, L.P.
Assistant General Counsel
Pfizer, Inc.
Dean Emeritus, John M. Olin
School of Business
Washington University in St. Louis
Retired, Edward Jones
Vice President for Mergers/
Acquisitions, Viacom
Partner
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
E. Desmond Lee Professor Emeritus
Director, LECG
Retired, Delta Airlines, Inc.
Retired Executive Vice President
and Chief Operating Officer
Unilever Home & Personal Care
$780,796 grant from the National
Institute on Aging for "Neural
Mechanisms of Age-Related Changes
in Prospective Memory"
Larry L. Jacoby, Mark A. McDaniel,
and Kathleen B. McDermott, $6.47
million collaborative activity grant from
the James S. McDonnell Foundation,
to use what cognitive psychologists
in the discover laboratory to improve
learning in the classroom
from the NSF for "RI: Medium:
Collaborative Research: The Effect of
Subglottal Resonances on Machine
and Human Speaker Normalization"
National Institutes of Health for
"Effects of Weight Bearing Exercise
on People with Diabetes and
Neuropathic Feet"
National Science Foundation of China
for "Early Development of Writing in
Chinese Children Aged Between 2
and 6: Comparison Between Writing
and Drawing, Character Writing and
English Writing"
$137,747 subaward from the University
of Missouri-St. Louis for
"Neuropathogenesis of Clade C HIV in
South Africa"
"Differential Item Functioning (DIF)
Testing With Estimation of the Latent
Densities"
the NSF for "Another Great Illusion:
The Advancement of Separatism
through Economic Integration"
$98,700 grant from the NSF for "SGER:
Money, Politics, and the Legitimacy of
State Supreme Courts: The Impact of
Recusals and Disqualifications"
in the Obama Era: Expectancy Theory
and the Replacement of Justice Souter"
$75,688 subaward from Northwestern
University for "Backdating the U.S.
Supreme Court Judicial Database,
1793-1946"
"Discrete Time-Series Cross-Section
Models of Political Economy" (with
graduate student Xun Pang)
fellow at Brookings Institution), grant
from the The Brookings Institution
and WUSTL's Academic Venture Fund
for "The Rise and Reform of the
60-Vote Senate Project"
Implications of Theoretical Models
Summer Institute"
and Literatures
English) $5,000 grant from the
Program for Cultural Cooperation
Between Spain's Ministry of Culture
and United States Universities to
fund a conference titled "Religious
Transformations in the Early Modern
Americas"
the NEH to sponsor a 2010 summer
institute for school teachers titled
"The New Negro Renaissance in
America, 1914-1941." Other A&S
faculty included in institute: Rafia
Zafar of English and of African and
African American studies, Joseph
Thompson of African and African
American studies, Patrick Burke
of music, and Sowande Mustakeem
of history
from the Naval Research Laboratory
for "Microcharacterization of Biogenic
Nanowire Structures by Electron
Microscopy"
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor of Classics
and of Religious Studies
Ph.D., University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Ph.D., Brown University
Assistant Professor of Drama
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor of History and
of International and Area Studies
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
and of Philosophy-Neuroscience-
Psychology
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Assistant Professor of Earth
and Planetary Sciences
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Assistant Professor of Comparative
Literature and of Romance
Languages and Literatures
Ph.D., Harvard University
Assistant Professor of 20th-century
African-American History
Ph.D., Duke University
Associate Professor of English
and of African and African
American Studies
Ph.D., California Institute of
Technology
Associate Professor of
Political Science
Ph.D., California Institute
of Technology
Associate Professor of
Political Science
Ph.D., Washington University
in St. Louis
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., Yale University
Assistant Professor of Earth and
Planetary Sciences
Ph.D., Harvard University
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Southern
California
Director Film and Media Studies,
David May Distinguished University
Professor in the Humanities
Ph.D., Yale University
Associate Professor of Germanic
Languages and Literatures
Ph.D., Yale University
Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences
and Professor of English, Hortense
and Tobias Lewin Distinguished
Professor in the Humanities
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor of Physics
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)