| Biotech Emphasis Targets a Changing World
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The opportunities are limitless, the industry is still in its infancy, and the applications can be as sexy as CSI -style forensic science or as significant as a cure for cancer. With the dizzying advances in digital and microtechnologies in recent decades has come an equally rapid expansion in the frontiers of biological science. | Assoc. Dean Bruce Umbaugh Embraces New Role
Reared in an Army family, Umbaugh has lived in places as diverse as Iran and Indiana, is known to whip out the occasional magic trick, brews his own beer—"though not as often as I would like"—and has delved deeper than most into the ethical and philosophical issues of behavior on the Internet. And, of course, he's detailed how the theories of the renowned philosopher George Berkeley presciently describe the "virtual reality" of cyberspace. What—haven't you? Umbaugh, associate professor of philosophy, gave up his post as chair of the University's Philosophy Department this summer to become the first associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. In part, Umbaugh's new role was created to help Dean David Wilson balance leadership tasks and new initiatives at the College. "David sort of has all these balls in the air," Umbaugh says, "and now we're juggling together—which in no way reduces the number of balls in motion—but now we can keep more in the air." Fitting that Umbaugh should use the juggling metaphor: FULL STORY |
New Faculty The College of Arts and Sciences welcomed several new full-time faculty members in the last academic year. In this issue, Global Thinking introduces two of them. FULL STORY
Before coming to the University, Stephanie Schroeder, a St. Louis native, spent five post-doctorate years in a biochemistry and molecular genetics lab at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Schroeder teaches biochemistry, genetics, genome and gene expression, and virology. |
Bruce Umbaugh is not your traditional kind of philosophy professor, but then he's not your average kind of guy. 
Dean's Message
For master's in counseling student Hazira Caus, the last 14 years have been a dramatic, life-altering journey fraught with challenges. From the moment in 1992 when war—or more precisely, Caus emphasizes, genocide—erupted in Yugoslavia, everything in her world changed. Her homeland suddenly dangerous and unrecognizable, her close-knit Bosnian community shattered, the refugee Caus was shuffled through three German cities before landing in St. Louis in 1997. She arrived without knowing a word of English. Now Caus intends to help fellow refugees and immigrants cope with these challenges that she knows all too well... FULL STORY |
