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Why do we like fatty foods so much? We can blame our taste buds. In the first study to identify a human receptor that can taste fat, researchers at the School of Medicine report that our tongues recognize and have an affinity for fat. Variations in a gene can make people more or less sensitive to the taste of fat in foods.
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Ralph J. Cicerone, PhD, president of the National Academy of Sciences and chair of the National Research Council, will present a seminar on climate change at 4 p.m. Monday, Jan. 23, in the Laboratory Sciences Building, Room 300, on the Danforth Campus.
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WUSTL students will help usher in the Year of the Dragon and celebrate one of Asia’s most important holidays — Lunar New Year — with fireworks Sunday, Jan. 22, and a two-night, high-spirited performance Jan. 27 and 28 in Edison Theatre. Events are open to the public and proceeds will support victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
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The Sam Fox School’s Spring Public Lecture Series kicks off at 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 20, with Kyna Leski, head of architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design. Other talks will feature Hungarian installation artist Balázs Kicsiny and architect Craig Dykers, whose firm, Snřhetta, designed the National 911 Memorial Pavilion in New York (right).
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Raymond L. Barber, project manager in Facilities, Planning & Management since 1992, died unexpectedly Dec. 26, 2011, in Urbana, Ill. He was 68. Barber managed or was involved in many important Danforth Campus building projects, including the Knight Center, Whitaker Hall and the installation of a glass dome on the Anheuser-Busch Hall courtyard.
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In remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr., the Society of Black Student Social Workers at the Brown School will host the sixth annual “Financial Freedom Seminar: Making Your Money Work for You” from 9 a.m.- 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, in Brown and Goldfarb halls. The seminar is free and open to the public.
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