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The International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES) will celebrate I-CARES Day Friday, Oct. 19. The event features talks by Peter H. Raven, PhD, president emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden, on climate change and its impact on biodiversity, and T.R. Kidder, PhD, chair of WUSTL’s Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences, on the idea that humans may be entering a geological era called the Anthropocene. A QR-code scavenger hunt is among the student activities.?
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Hailed by some as the beginning of a “post-racial” America, the election of Barack Obama sparked a measurable bump in feelings of political empowerment among black Americans. But those sentiments have faded considerably, according to political survey data, with the sharpest declines in perceived political power coming from blacks who identify themselves as conservatives or “born again” Christians.?
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Wayne M. Yokoyama, MD, and Charles F. Zorumski, MD, have been elected to the Institute of Medicine, a part of the National Academy of Sciences. Membership in the organization is one of the highest honors physician-scientists in the United States can receive.?
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Rodney Jones has been named manager of the Campus Store. Jones, previously assistant manager of the store, replaces Betsy Schneider, who retired in June.? The store is located in Mallinckrodt Center on the Danforth Campus.
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