Month: February 2018

The university’s Emergency Management Department will host Ready Week March 5-9. Ready Week will feature fun and interactive events as well as training.

The Washington University men’s basketball team will host 2018 NCAA Division III first- and second-round play this weekend at the Field House. The first game is at 5:30 p.m. Friday, March 2.

Mark Scharff, music cataloger at Washington University’s Gaylord Music Library, is the recipient of the Music Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) Users Group’s 2018 Distinguished Service Award.

Facebook tells its team to “move fast and break things.” Washington University computer science student Grace Egbo did just that, crashing the company’s internal site during her summer internship.

The Washington University Choirs, Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra will join forces March 2 for the 2018 Chancellor’s Concert — the university’s largest musical event of the year.

Thaddeus Stappenbeck, MD, PhD, the Conan Professor of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been elected to the Association of American Physicians in recognition of his work advancing biomedical science, medicine or health through innovative research.

A memorial service in honor of John A. (Jack) Pierce, MD, emeritus professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, will be held at 5 p.m. Monday, March 12, in Moore Auditorium on the Medical Campus. To attend, RSVP by March 5. Pierce died in November at age 92.

A research team from the School of Medicine led by Allan Doctor, MD, has received $5 million in grants to develop artificial red blood cells to act as a blood substitute. The research aims to prevent deaths from traumatic bleeding.

For years, researchers have attempted to harness the full potential of gene therapy, a technique that inserts genes into a patient’s cells to treat cancer and other diseases. However, inserting engineered DNA molecules into cells is difficult. A team of engineers at Washington University in St. Louis has developed a new method that could make the process easier.

Washington University in St. Louis will test its emergency communication system, WashUAlerts, at 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 6. The test will take place unless there is the potential for severe weather that day or an emergency is occurring at that time.