The View From Here 4.11.16

By Kelly Wiese Niemeyer April 11, 2016

Tammy Orahood, director of global programs at the Brown School, and Tim McBride, professor at the Brown School, walk through Washington on their way to a meeting with Brookings Institution scholars. The trip to the nation’s capital was part of a short course giving students in the Master’s in Social Policy program a taste of policymaking in the U.S. The dual-degree program is offered with Fudan University in China.

The short course is being taught jointly by McBride and Edward F. Lawlor (left), dean of the Brown School. Lawlor led the group on a trip to meet with Brown School alumna Andrea Palm (center), senior counselor at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Policy students also visited leaders at the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon and attended a conference at the Newseum.

Student work from the Sam Fox School’s 311 architecture studio will be on display in Givens Hall through April 26. In the course, juniors designed an “Observatory for Environmental Effects,” sited on the historic Chain of Rocks Bridge. (Image: Koby Moreno)

Members of the university community gathered April 5 to focus on “Research, Reflection and Responses” to cap a yearlong look at one of America’s greatest public-health challenges: death and injury as a result of gun violence. Taking part in the discussion are (from left) Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH; Sean Joe; Jason Purnell; and William Powderly, MD. (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University)

Mayor Francis Slay (left) chats with Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton at the gun violence event April 5. (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University)

arbor tour — Kent Theiling Jr., grounds and landscape design manager for the Danforth Campus, gestures toward Olin Library while leading a spring arbor tour around campus April 5, 2016.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital employee Rodney Barfield visits the ducks at Ellen S. Clark Hope Plaza on the Medical Campus. (Photo: Robert J. Boston/School of Medicine)

High school students from across the region gathered at Washington University for the inaugural Washington University Chemistry Tournament, a day-long exploration of chemistry designed to promote fundamental problem-solving, collaboration and creative thinking skills, April 2, 2016. Among the activities was a relay round, where students teamed up to answer related chemistry questions. Katheryne Lamkin (left) and Annie Zheng, students at Ladue Horton Watkins High School, took part. Learn more about the competition at http://wuct.axe.wustl.edu. (Photo: Sid Hastings/Washington University)

students in classroom — At the the inaugural Washington University Chemistry Tournament, Washington University students (from left) Erin Hall, Courtney Yoo and Stephanie Pecaro instruct the students on the rules. (Photo: Sid Hastings/Washington University)

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