Jerome R. Cox Jr., ScD, senior professor, and Jonathan S. Turner, PhD, the Barbara J. and Jerome R. Cox, Jr. Professor, both in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, will receive the 2011 Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship during the Faculty Achievement Awards ceremony Dec. 3.

Washington University has received a five-year, $3 million grant to establish a new center to develop better ways to prevent and treat type 2 diabetes in high-risk patients, including American Indians and Alaska Natives, says Debra Haire-Joshu, PhD, director of the new center. 

Pratim Biswas, PhD, was installed as the new Lucy & Stanley Lopata Professor at Washington University in a ceremony Oct. 10 in Whitaker Hall. Biswas, chair of the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, is one of the world’s leading experts in aerosol science.

Washington University Libraries and the St. Louis Poetry Center will present a program featuring the works of renowned poet Elizabeth Bishop at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 23, in Wilson Hall. A reception will follow in the Ginkgo Reading Room in the nearby Olin Library. The event is free and open to the public.

Cultivars of popular ornamental woody plants that are being sold in the United States as non-invasive are probably anything but, according to an analysis by a WUSTL botanical researcher published in the October issue of BioScience.

Noon, Monday, Oct. 17

Work, Families, and Public Policy Biweekly Brown Bag Seminar Series

“Can Child Development Accounts Increase College Savings?” Michael Sherraden, the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development. Free and open to the public. Coffee and soft drinks provided. Seigle Hall, Rm. 348. (314) 935-4918.

Take a guided arbor tour of Danforth Campus

Kent Theiling Jr., grounds and landscape design manager for the Danforth Campus, will lead a Fall Arbor Tour Wednesday, Oct. 19. The guided tour will start at 11 a.m. at the Danforth Garden in front of Brookings Hall and is expected to last approximately an hour. To reserve a spot, email Kim Shilling at kshilling@wustl.edu.

Amy Kweskin

University treasurer manages the funds that keep WUSTL running. FULL STORY

Did football regain winning ways?

The football team was looking to snap its three-game losing skid at home against the College of Wooster last Saturday at Francis Field. Find out if they did, as well as the fates of all your favorite WUSTL fall sports teams over the weekend, by visiting bearsports.wustl.edu.