The View From Here 7.28.21

More than 95 local teachers are participating in the STEM Teacher Quality Institute, which teaches educators how to integrate science, technology, engineering and math into their lessons. Here, teachers learn about the physics of racing at Victory Raceway. STEM TQ is led by the university's Institute for School Partnership in collaboration with St. Louis employers. (Courtesy photo)

July 28, 2021

teachers in race cars — More than 95 local teachers are participating in the STEM Teacher Quality Institute, which teaches educators how to integrate science, technology, engineering and math into their lessons. Here, teachers learn about the physics of racing at Victory Raceway. STEM TQ is led by the university’s Institute for School Partnership in collaboration with St. Louis employers. (Courtesy photo)

STEMpact — Deborah Patterson, former president of the Monsanto Fund, gives the opening address July 14 at the start of the Institute for School Partnership’s two-week summer institute for its STEMpact STEM Teacher Quality program and yearlong follow-up. Over 90 educators from 17 school districts are taking part. (Photo: Myra Lopez)

College Prep discussion — Area high school students participate in discussion June 23 during the College Prep program on campus. (Photo: Curran Neenan)

College Prep class — Area high school students taking part in the College Prep program meet on campus for a class with Lerone Martin, associate professor, on June 23. (Photo: Curran Neenan)

deputy ambassador visit — Michael Tatham, British deputy ambassador to the U.S., visited WashU on July 16 to tour the east end of the Danforth Campus and to discuss climate research and policy with students, faculty and staff. (Photo: Sid Hastings/Washington University)

Midwest Climate Summit panel — The partner institutions of the Midwest Climate Summit — including WashU — presented a virtual panel discussion July 19, “New Federal Climate Strategy and Role of the Midwest.” Four federal climate experts discussed the Biden administration’s plans to address climate change and ramifcations for the Midwest. (Courtesy photo)

Gephardt students in the park — Members of the Gephardt Institute’s summer cohorts — Arts as Civic Engagement, Beuerlein Fellows and Goldman Fellows — met at Forest Park to watch the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival’s production of “King Lear.” (Photo courtesy of Colleen Smyth)

ISP MySci partnership program — As part of a teacher-researcher partnership opportunity, Brittany Daugs, science teacher at Kirkwood High School, is spending the summer conducting scientific research and curriculum development in chemistry and nanotechnology in the lab of Bryce Sadtler in Arts & Sciences. Graduate student Jiang Luo looks on. (Photo: Myra Lopez)

You Might Also Like

7.7.21

7.7.21

5.17.21

5.17.21

4.26.21

4.26.21

Latest from the Record

Announcements

WashU to sponsor Greater St. Louis Marathon

WashU Employee Appreciation Week coming

2026 State of the University address scheduled

Notables

Stone recognized for support of disabled students

Four named senior members of National Academy of Inventors

Chahin, Rohatgi named Loeb Teaching Fellows

Obituaries

Ralph S. Quatrano, former dean of engineering, 84

Donald Royse, architect and urban designer, 93

Kathleen Finneran, acclaimed memoirist, 68

Research Wire

PUEO’s Antarctic flight advances neutrino research

WashU among top 100 granted US patents

Clinically informed AI outperforms foundation models in spinal cord disease prediction

The View From Here

Washington People

Stephanie Mazzucca-Ragan

Who Knew WashU?

Who Knew WashU? 1.27.21

Who Knew WashU? 1.13.21

Who Knew WashU? 12.9.20