Author: Jessica Daues

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation and Washington University in St. Louis announced the discovery by Monticello scholars that a collection of books, long held in the libraries at WUSTL, originally were part of Thomas Jefferson’s personal library.

Students who have a passion for collecting books can compete for prizes of $1,000 or $500 by entering the 24th annual Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition. Sponsored by Washington University Libraries, the Neureuther competition offers prizes to four students who write short essays about their personal book collections.

Li-Wei Chang, PhD, research instructor in pathology and immunology, has received a two-year, $180,000 career transition award from the National Library of Science for research titled “Novel Bioinformatics Tools for Gene Regulatory Network Inference.” … Matthew Erlin, PhD, associate professor of German in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $50,400 Fellowship for University Teachers […]

Librarian Ruth Lewis (right) shows senior Huifeng Yu (left) how a digital research management tool works at Olin Library’s Taste of Technology fair Feb. 10. Yu was among the many students, faculty and staff who stopped by the fair, where Washington University Libraries staff demonstrated a variety of technologies useful in research, education and entertainment.

D. Craig Allred, MD, professor of pathology and immunology, has received a one-year, $24,000 grant from the Longer Life Foundation for research titled “Predicting Prognosis in Invasive Breast Cancer by Genetic Instability.” … Tamara Burlis, DPT, assistant professor of physical therapy and associate director for clinical education in physical therapy, has been appointed by Missouri […]

WUSTL’s top 11 percent finish in last year’s RecycleMania competition was impressive, but the Office of Sustainability is challenging WUSTL to finish even higher in the 2011 RecycleMania contest, which lasts eight weeks and ends Saturday, April 2. RecycleMania 2011 pits WUSTL against other colleges and universities to see which campus can keep the greatest amount of waste materials from landfills.

Three new three-week Summer Institutes for high school students will be offered at Washington University in St. Louis in 2011. The High School Summer Institutes — one of which focuses on creative writing, one on Japanese popular culture and on one pre-medical topics — are part of Washington University’s High School Summer Experiences program in Arts & Sciences.

Doc M. Billingsley, graduate student in anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $9,445 grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for research titled “Networks of K’iche Knowledge Production: An Ethnography of Memory in Practice.” … Peter Burgers, PhD, the Marvin A. Brennecke Professor of Biological Chemistry, received an honorary doctorate in medicine from Umeå […]

Collaborating with researchers in NASA, Daren Chen, PhD, has used the miniature particle size that he had developed as a part of a special smoke detector that was tested by the National Institute of Standards and Testing on more than 200 different kinds of fires and found to be 100 percent accurate. “I’m very interested in making this better sensor cheap enough to eventually allow networks in large buildings and ultimately save human lives,” Chen says.

Henry S. Webber (right), WUSTL’s executive vice chancellor for administration, speaks during a panel discussion on strategies for economic development in the St. Louis region in the second installation of St. Louis Great Debates Jan. 25 at the Missouri History Museum. The first debate in the series, which took place this past October, examined whether the City of St. Louis should re-enter St. Louis County.