The Record: Friday, March 1, 2024

Friday, March 1, 2024

Top stories

Efficient lithium-air battery sought to electrify transit

With $1.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy, a collaborative team of researchers led by the McKelvey School of Engineering is working toward creating efficient and reliable batteries for transportation use.

Student participation sought for sexual misconduct survey

All degree-seeking WashU students are encouraged to participate in a new survey about the campus climate. The survey opens Monday, March 4, and will be available online until April 6.

Events

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‘Navigating the fluidity of K in K-pop’

2 p.m. Friday, March 1

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Advancing neuroscience across WashU

3:30 p.m. Friday, March 1

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Saturday Science Lecture on alignment of planets, stars

10 a.m. Saturday, March 2

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Campus and community news

Notables

Hong Chen and Jonathan Silva, both faculty members in the McKelvey School of Engineering, have been named senior members of the National Academy of Inventors. They will be inducted in June.

Notables

Da’Juantay Wynter, a sophomore in Arts & Sciences, has been selected by the Institute for Responsible Citizenship for its Washington Program, a selective, two-summer program for talented Black male college students.

Perspectives

‘Rich and successful? It’s likely you’re just lucky’

Poverty expert and author Mark R. Rank, the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare at the Brown School, writes in an op-ed about the outsized role that chance plays in people’s economic fortunes.

the globe and mail

Who Knew WashU?

Question: In 1933, Evarts Graham, MD, the Bixby Professor of Surgery at the School of Medicine, performed which lifesaving surgery on James Gilmore, the first successful procedure of its kind?

Answer: D) Pneumonectomy, or removal of a lung, to treat lung cancer. Read more about Graham’s accomplished career.

Congrats to this week’s winner, Ken Niemeyer, who works at the School of Medicine and will receive an “I Knew WashU” luggage tag!

In memoriam

Peter Alan Fedders, professor emeritus of physics, 85

Peter Alan Fedders, a professor emeritus of physics in Arts & Sciences, died Feb. 22 in La Jolla, Calif. He was 85. Fedders was an expert in condensed-matter physics who made significant contributions to the theory of nuclear magnetic resonance.