Author: Jessica Daues

Of note Joseph Batchelor, PhD, of the Department of Molecular Microbiology; Drew Etheridge, PhD, of the Department of Molecular Microbiology; Andrew Kau, MD, PhD, of the Department of Pathology & Immunology; Michael Mahowald, MD, PhD, of the Department of Genetics; and Eric Tomko, PhD, of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; have been named […]

WHAT: Today, the Washington University military care package group will surpass 5 tons of total donated goods mailed to soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan since the group formed in March 2004. Boxes containing the fifth ton will be packed at WUSTL today by group members and members of local ROTC programs. WHO: The WUSTL military […]

WUSTL will test its outdoor warning sirens on the Danforth Campus at 11 a.m. Monday, Oct. 4, in conjunction with St. Louis County’s monthly siren test.

Washington University in St. Louis has released its plan to reduce energy use on its campuses. The plan — developed by the university’s Energy Reduction Committee — details the university’s past energy-reduction achievements, its aspirations for energy reduction as outlined in the Strategic Plan for Environmentally Sustainable Operations, and specific recommendations on how the university plans to achieve those aspirations.

Hillel Kieval, PhD, the Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought, has spent the past 25 years studying European Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries. His chief focus is the various ways in which they identified with, and struggled against, their European environment.  

Yehuda Ben-Shahar, PhD, assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $150,000 fellowship in neurosciences from the Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund. … Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, the Robert L. Glaser Professor of Pathology and Immunology and professor of developmental biology and of medicine, has received five-year, $1,687,200 grant from […]

Approximately 1,600 members of the Class of 2014 arrived on campus this past August. Nearly all the freshmen graduated in the top 5 percent or 10 percent of their high school class, and more than 60 percent traveled at least 500 miles from their hometowns to WUSTL. “We were impressed with their talents and abilities, as they stood out among the finest students in their high schools around the world,” says Julie Shimabukuro, director of admissions.

Risa Zwerling Wrighton (center) greets Elaine Greenbaum during the Woman’s Club of Washington University’s Fall Welcome Lunch at Harbison House Sept. 14. The club, which is celebrating its centennial in 2010, offers members opportunities to form friendships and grow intellectually through luncheons, lectures, tours and programs.

Washington University installed automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) in seven areas across the Danforth Campus Sept. 16 with a high volume of foot traffic. An AED is a computerized medical device that can monitor a person’s heart rhythm and can recognize when a distressed person requires a shock to re-establish a normal heart rhythm.

Of note Gautam Dantas, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and immunology, has received a two-year, $75,000 grant from the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative for research titled “Functional Metagenomic Discovery of Novel Enzymatic Functions from Ultra Low-Volume Samples with Whole Metagenome Amplification.” … Kavit Alan Desouza, MD, research scientist in biomedical engineering, has received a […]