Author: Jessica Daues

To ensure broad communication, certain key university policies are published on an annual basis in a special policy section of the Record. All members of the university community are essential to the continued endeavor for excellence in WUSTL’s teaching, research, service and patient-care missions. Establishing and sustaining an open, positive working and learning environment for faculty, staff and students is a shared responsibility.

Kelly Anne Barnes, PhD, has received a one-year, $40,000 postdoctoral fellowship grant from the Tourette Syndrome Association for research titled “Cortico-Striatal Functional Connectivity in Children and Adolescents With Tourette Syndrome: A Resting-State Functional Connectivity MRI Study.” She will conduct research under the mentorship of Bradley L. Schlaggar, MD, PhD, the A. Ernest and Jane G. […]

With the time change this weekend — daylight savings time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 7, and the clock “falls back” one hour — it will get dark earlier in the evening. The Washington University Police Department offers some safety reminders as part of the “Don’t be in the Dark” campaign.

Washington University will offer a symposium to discuss and promote mentorship among traditionally underrepresented women of color throughout Washington University’s campuses from 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 19. The symposium is free to WUSTL employees. Registration and supervisor approval is required by Friday, Nov. 5.  

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton talks with WUSTL neighbors at the “Report to the Neighbors” meeting Oct. 27 at the Knight Center. The meeting included a performance by student a cappella group After Dark; a “state of the university” address by Wrighton; a presentation by Victoria May, assistant dean in Arts & Sciences and director of Science Outreach; and a question-and-answer session with a panel of WUSTL administrators.

Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton holds a paper chain as a tricycle parade “cuts the ribbon” for the new WUSTL Family Learning Center during the center’s grand opening ceremony Oct. 27. The Family Learning Center, which opened in early September, serves children of faculty, staff and students.

The WUSTL Police Department is teaming up with the Kurt Warner First Things First Foundation and Operation Food Search for the 10th annual Warners’ Warm-up winter-coat drive. Through Nov. 14, the WUSTL police station will serve as a drop-off location for students, faculty, staff and others to donate new or gently used winter coats.  

The Campus Store will give WUSTL faculty and staff members an opportunity to do some early holiday shopping. The store will hold its 13th annual Faculty/Staff Appreciation Event Tuesday, Nov. 9, and will offer a 30 percent discount to faculty and staff members from 3-8 p.m. 

Women undergraduate and graduate students can discuss post-graduation choices and how to attain a successful, fulfilling life at “Composing a Life” Tuesday, Nov. 9, at 6 p.m. at the Laboratory Sciences Building, Room 300. The discussion, hosted by the Women’s Society of Washington University, will feature five women with career experience in an array of fields, from engineering to business to nonprofit.

Marco Colonna, MD, professor of pathology and immunology, has received a five-year, $1,824,000 grant from the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research for research titled “The Role of NK-22 Cells in Anti-HIV-1 Mucosal Immunity.” … Deanna Jacquelyn Greene, PhD, has received a one-year, $40,000 postdoctoral fellowship grant from the Tourette Syndrome Association for research […]