A select group of students will attend the Conference of the Parties, where leaders from around the globe will discuss how to respond to climate change. The gathering in Madrid will mark the ninth consecutive year that Washington University students have taken part.
Jill D. Friedman, vice chancellor for public affairs at Washington University, will leave her position effective Dec. 31, according to Chancellor Andrew D. Martin. A national search will be conducted to find a successor.
A new study led by the School of Medicine reveals details about how gut microbes interact with norovirus infection in the mouse gut. The research opens up new ways of thinking about potential therapies for this intestinal infection.
’Tis the season to shop, and who better to offer advice than a scientist who studies gift-giving? Olin Business School marketing expert Elanor Williams shares things to keep in mind during holiday shopping.
The Campus Bookstore in Mallinckrodt Center and the Medical Campus Bookstore will hold their annual Faculty and Staff Appreciation Day on Wednesday, Dec. 4. Employees are eligible for 30% off of clothing and gift purchases in store.
Jennifer Gartley, a professional flutist who has performed with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, serves as programming and public outreach director for the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences. It’s just one of the notes she plays at Washington University.
Tabea Linhard, professor in Arts & Sciences, writes on the Center for the Humanities website about constructed and natural borders ahead of anthropologist Jason De León’s delivering the Holocaust Memorial Lecture, “The Land of Open Graves,” on Dec. 4.
J. Mark Meacham, assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has received a five-year $500,000 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for his research using algae cells to study devices he builds in the lab.
Researchers associated with the Center for Science & Engineering of Living Systems, which is led by Rohit Pappu, at the McKelvey School of Engineering have developed an open-source computational model that allows scientists to generate predictive insights connecting molecular architectures to phase diagrams for multivalent proteins. Details were published recently in PLoS Computational Biology.
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J. Mark Meacham, assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has received a five-year $500,000 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for his research using algae cells to study devices he builds in the lab.