Month: December 2016

The associate professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Science works to create powerful sensors that can detect chemicals, biomarkers that could speed health-care diagnostics and new materials to clean dirty water.

Jennie H. Kwon, DO, has been selected as a 2016 National Academy of Medicine fellow in osteopathic medicine. Kwon, an instructor of medicine in infectious diseases at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, was chosen based on her scholarship, professional accomplishments and expertise.

Carolyn Booker Yarber, a member of the University Libraries staff for more than 48 years, died Dec. 9, 2016, in St. Louis. She was 69. A funeral service will be held Thursday, Dec. 15.

Girls with a rare genetic disorder caused by mutations in a gene known as Nf1 are much more likely to lose their vision than boys with mutations in the same gene. And now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis believe they know why: Female sex hormones activate immune cells that damage the nerves necessary for vision.

Washington University Emeritus Trustee Robert Frick, BS ’60, MBA ’62, and his wife, Barbara, recently made a $2 million commitment to support Olin Business School. The popular second-floor commons area in Knight Hall will be named Robert and Barbara Frick Commons in recognition of their generosity.

The son of Washington University Nobel laureates Carl and Gerty Cori has given the Nobel Prizes his parents were awarded in 1947 to the university. They can be seen at the Becker Medical Library.

Washington University is among 30 of the nation’s most respected colleges and universities to join forces in a new initiative to substantially expand the number of talented low- and moderate-income students who attend America’s top-performing undergraduate institutions with the highest graduation rates.

Three Washington University in St. Louis undergraduates will represent the university at the World Finals of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) International Collegiate Programming Contest in South Dakota next May.

Rick W. Wright, MD, the Jerome J. Gilden Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been chosen as second president-elect by members of the American Orthopaedic Association.

Images from in and around the Washington University campuses.