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Project ARK and The SPOT have been tapped as a model and mentor to what is hoped will be a similar center in East St. Louis, Ill. The new clinic, funded through a federal grant, will emulate The SPOT, a School of Medicine program that addresses health risks facing youth. Pictured are the SPOT’s medical director, Katie Plax, MD (left), and Kim Donica, the executive director.
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Legal scholar, author and political activist Lawrence Lessig, JD, will give two Assembly Series talks Thursday, Oct. 10 — one on money in American politics and the other on copyright law.
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A talk at WUSTL by Ernest Moniz, PhD, U.S. energy secretary, has been postponed due to the federal government shutdown. He was to discuss President Obama’s climate action plan Friday, Oct. 4. Moniz’s talk will be the 52nd annual Joseph W. Kennedy Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences.
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Why do some St. Louis neighborhoods rebound while others languish? That question will be at the forefront of a talk presented by Hank Webber, WUSTL’s executive vice chancellor for administration, and Todd Swanstrom, PhD, of the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The lecture, “Neighborhood Change in the St. Louis Region Since 1970: What Explains Neighborhood Success” is 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, at the Missouri History Museum.
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George Pepe, PhD, professor and former chair of classics in Arts & Sciences, received the David Hadas Teaching Award for his commitment to and excellence in teaching first-year undergraduates. Pepe received the award Sept. 9 during the annual Arts & Sciences reception, which also celebrates the start of a new academic year and introduces new faculty.
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4:15 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3
“Earth’s Darkest Age: Possible Hadean Plate Boundary Interactions” by Mark Harrison, prof. of earth and space sciences, UCLA. Free and open to the public. Event details. Rudolph Hall, Room 203. (314)
935-5610.
6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4
“Health-care Reform: What It Is, Why It’s Necessary, How It Works” by Jonathan Gruber, prof. of economics, MIT. Free and open to the public. Co-sponsors/event details. Brown Hall, Room 100. (314) 935-4620.
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Jon Kleinberg, of Cornell University, will deliver the American Mathematical Society’s 2013 Einstein Lecture Oct. 19. Kleinberg will speak on “Bursts, Cascades and Hot Spots: A Glimpse of Some Online Social Phenomena at Global Scales.”
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Nephrologist is a longtime, vocal advocate for patients. FULL STORY
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