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Outstanding Alumni ‘Like Brother and Sister’
Longtime friends’ dedication to service began at Webster

The College of Arts & Sciences’ two most recent Outstanding Alumni Award recipients have a few things in common: Expertise in their fields. Dedication to community service. Lively participation in Webster alumni connections. And a friendship that goes back 35 years.

Tim Noelker (’73) was honored at Webster’s 2007 commencement for his long-time service to children’s issues. Nancy Edmonds Paull (’80) was honored at the 2006 commencement for more than 20 years of leadership in social service on a national and international level.

Both got their start as young Webster students in 1970. FULL STORY


Student of the State
Recent IR grad recalls internship at U.S. embassy in Bern

Bern PhotoOnce the FBI showed up in her neighborhood, Jaclyn Stewart (’07) knew she was getting into something bigger than her typical Webster coursework.

As the then-junior had applied for a State Department internship, the federal agents needed to ask her neighbors about her, check into her background, and make sure she was eligible for a U.S. embassy security clearance.

With nothing to hide, Stewart was cleared to take the eight-week internship as a public diplomacy intern at the U.S. Embassy in Bern, Switzerland. The 2006 internship also counted as credit toward her integrated B.A./M.A. in International Relations from Webster, which she completed in May 2007.
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Faculty Feature
Dean Eckhoff
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences


Eckhoff PhotoDean Eckhoff joined Webster’s biological sciences department in summer 2007 after teaching physics and biophysics at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla.

How did you get interested in physics?
I think it is a combination of my love for nature and simplicity that ultimately led me to study physics, though it took me quite some time to figure that out. That may sound like a contradiction, given that physics is supposedly hard instead of simple, but really physics is all about describing something that is complex using the simplest possible ways we can imagine.
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David Wilson PhotoDean's Message
Dean David Carl Wilson discusses the latest from the College of Arts & Sciences.
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Renowned Psychologist Lectures at Webster Vienna
Philip G. Zimbardo

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The celebration of Webster University’s Vienna campus’ 25th anniversary in 2005-06 did more than look back at a quarter century of accomplishments. It threw down the gauntlet for future growth at the University’s second-oldest international campus.

At a fete marking the milestone, the biggest news may have been the announcement of a new fund to attract internationally acclaimed lecturers like Philip Zimbardo to Webster Vienna every year.
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