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“Refund to Savings,” the largest savings experiment conducted in the United States, begins this tax season and is expected to reach almost 1.2 million households. The project is a novel collaboration of university researchers, led by Michal Grinstein-Weiss (right), PhD, associate director of the Center for Social Development at WUSTL, and Intuit Inc., the maker of TurboTax software, Quicken Books and Mint.
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For a majority of the pollsters and established pundits, the outcome of the 2012 presidential election was a shock. For statistician, author and blogger Nate Silver, it was anything but. In his Assembly Series presentation Monday, Feb. 11, he will describe one of his secrets: discerning the “signal” from the “noise.”?
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A massive earthen mound constructed about 3,200 years ago by Native Americans in Louisiana was built in less than 90 days, and perhaps as quickly as 30 days, according to research co-authored by T.R. Kidder, PhD, professor and chair of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, in the journal Geoarchaeology.
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Rajendra S. Apte, MD, PhD, is the new Paul A. Cibis Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the School of Medicine. Apte focuses his research on inflammation and aberrant blood vessel growth that together wreak havoc in eye diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in older Americans.
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Islamic art specialist Melanie Michailidis, PhD, the Korff Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic Art, died Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, in an automobile accident in Ladue, Mo. She was 46. Michailidis was in the second year of a three-year joint fellowship she held in the Department of Art History and Archaeology and at the Saint Louis Art Museum.
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11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6
“What We Know About the Genetics of Addiction: Implications for Medicine and Public Health,” Arpana Agrawal, asst. prof. of psychiatry. Free and open to the public. Event details. Wohl Clinic Bldg., Clopton Aud. (314) 362-2462.
7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8
Live music by Wack-A-Doo at 6 p.m.; art making from 6-8 p.m. with local still-life artist William Neukomm; and a Gallery Talk at 7 p.m. by Allison Taylor, manager of education programs, on Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928-1945. Free and open to the public. Event details. Kemper Art Museum (314) 935-4523.
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Nominations are being accepted for this year’s Dean’s Distinguished Service Award at the School of Medicine. This is the highest honor awarded to a medical school staff member. The award is presented to a full-time medical employee who exceeds job responsibilities and creates a positive working and learning environment. Nominations are due Feb. 28.
The Public Interest Law and Policy Speakers Series continues Thursday, Feb. 7, with Arlie Hochschild, PhD, professor emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, on “The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times” at noon in Anheuser-Busch Hall.
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Navigating the locus of power in corporations FULL STORY
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