Month: August 2022

Architects Hilary Sample and Thomas Phifer; artists Katharina Grosse, Derrick Adams and Meleko Mokgosi; and fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg are among the internationally known visual thinkers who will discuss their work as part of the fall Public Lecture Series sponsored by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

Washington University has established a Flood Crisis Fund to assist employees and students who incurred financial costs related to flooding in the region in late July and early August.

Geoffrey Goodhill, professor at the School of Medicine, and colleagues will track each cell in the brain as it cycles between waking and sleep states with $3.2 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

On Monday, Aug. 29, NASA plans to launch its Orion spacecraft from the world’s most powerful rocket for a trip around the moon. Lunar scientist Bradley L. Jolliff in Arts & Sciences explains why the Artemis mission represents the next great leap in human exploration of space.

The Sam Fox Ambassadors Graduate Fellowship Program, which each year provides full-tuition waivers for 10 outstanding graduate candidates in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has been permanently endowed thanks to a new $10 million pledge from the Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation.

Applications for faculty members whose research area focuses on race and ethnicity are open, the Office of the Provost announced. Applications are due by Oct. 3.

Joseph Reid, Jr., who had been a master carpenter at Washington University for 42 years, died Saturday, Aug. 20, in Branson, Mo. Funeral services will take place Saturday, Aug. 27.

A rumination on space and the human capacity to imagine.

Nicole Gore has been appointed associate dean for student conduct and community standards at Washington University in St. Louis, announced Robert Wild, associate vice chancellor for student affairs. Gore had served as senior assistant dean for Arts & Sciences. Gore’s appointment took effect Aug. 15. 

Washington University School of Medicine researchers have found a new druggable pathway, in mice, that potentially could be used to help prevent Alzheimer’s dementia.