The Press Club of Metropolitan Saint Louis honors sports columnist Rick Hummel, broadcaster and former Cardinals player Bob Uecker, and critic and St. Louis Beacon co-founder Bob Duffy Jan. 21 at its annual gala. Hummel will be celebrated as Media Person of the Year, Uecker will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, and Duffy will be recognized for his contributions to journalism.
You can support the arts by giving the Arts and Education Council’s power2give.org gift card this holiday season. The card lets holders give directly to their choice of more than 25 local arts organizations and projects listed on the crowdsourcing website, including Circus Flora, St. Louis Classical Guitar Society, the Big River Writers Conference and other nonprofits. The initiative is managed by A&E.
Joshua Aiken, a senior at Washington University, has been chosen as a Rhodes scholar. The 21-year-old American culture studies/political science major will use the scholarship, which pays for up to three years at the University of Oxford in England, to study the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers. Aiken is the 27th Rhodes scholar from Washington University.
When West Side Story returns to the Fabulous Fox Theatre Jan. 3 through 5, it will be old home week for three cast members with local ties. Ricardo Rique-Sanchez, who portrays Pepe (far right in photo), grew up in St. Louis, attending Central Visual & Performing Arts High School (’08) and Stephens College (’11); Alejandro Fonseca (Shark Boy) attended Lindenwood University; and Kristin Yancy (Shark Girl) went to Washington University (2011).
Two Washington University faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society. Dr. Michael Holtzman and Rohit Pappu, Ph.D.,were among 388 new fellows recognized for their efforts to advance science or its applications. Holtzman, professor of medicine, is known for his contributions to understanding and treating chronic lung diseases; Pappu, professor of biomedical engineering, was honored for his research on the forms and functions of intrinsically disordered proteins.
Pictured: Rohit Pappu
