|
News for the Washington University Campuses & Community
Straight from The Source
|
|
|
|
|
Do babies know what we like?
Behind the chubby cheeks and bright eyes of babies as young as 8 months lies the whirring mind of a social statistician, logging our every move and making odds on what a person is likely to do next, suggests new research co-led by Arts & Sciences.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
‘An element of surprise’
Over the last several months, Sam Fox School architecture students have planned, fabricated and installed a 100-foot-long public sculpture at St. Louis Lambert International Airport.
|
|
|
WashU Expert: Trump’s transgender ban ‘unfounded’
A ban on transgender people serving in the U.S. military is an attempt to make policy with no logical foundation in evidence or expertise on the matter, said Vanessa Fabbre, a transgender aging expert at the Brown School.
|
|
|
|
|
Campus Announcements
The university’s Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Community is now accepting applications for its 2017-18 cohort. The SEIC will host its 2017 kick-off event Sept 15.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Obituaries
 Denise Thomas, a medical assistant for 28 years in the Department of Medicine at the School of Medicine and a student at University College in Arts & Sciences, died July 4 in St. Louis. Thomas, 52, died several days after suffering a stroke at her home.
|
|
Campus Voices
“First Mondays,” a seasonal podcast about the workings of the Supreme Court co-hosted by the School of Law’s Daniel Epps, is partnering with the well-regarded SCOTUSblog. The blog regularly will post new episodes on its site.
Read more Campus Voices →
|
|
|
|
|
 Julie K. Schwarz, MD, PhD, an associate professor of radiation oncology, has been named director of the Cancer Biology Division in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the School of Medicine.
|
|
|
 The Josh Seidel Memorial Foundation recently awarded the university’s Institute for School Partnership funds to support the creation of mobile makerspace kits to be used in classrooms in the University City School District.
|
|
|
|
Who Knew WashU?
 Question: Washington University is affiliated with 24 Nobel laureates. From which academic discipline does our most recent Nobel Prize winner hail?
A) Chemistry
B) Literature
C) Medicine
D) Physics
Submit your answer → |
|
|
You have received this e-mail because you expressed interest in receiving updates from wustl.edu, the Record and its related products by e-mail. Thanks for your subscription. If you do not want to receive the Record via e-mail, you may unsubscribe. Got this as a forward? Sign up to receive our future e-mails.
|
|
