Author: Jessica Roberts Martin

Two of Missouri’s top leaders in public health will speak at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work on April 10 and 13. Ronald J. Levy, director of the Mo. Department of Social Services, will close National Public Health Week with a lecture on “Building a Healthy Missouri” at noon on April 10 in Brown Hall Lounge. On April 13, Margaret Donnelly, director of the Mo. Department of Health and Senior Services, will speak about “Careers in Government” from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Brown Hall Lounge.

“‘Meetings on the Move’ is an inexpensive, easy way to improve health and productivity,” says Tim McBride, Ph.D., associate dean for public health at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. Meetings on the Move (MOTM) get employees on their feet and out of the office environment. “Forty percent of the population are absolute couch potatoes,” says Debra Haire-Joshu, Ph.D, and professor of social work at Washington University. “That’s almost a learned behavior. You learn to sit at school; you learn to sit at work. What ‘Meetings on the Move’ really does is get us active like we used to be when we were kids. We can learn then to bring activity back into our daily life, just like we learned to take it out.” Haire-Joshu also is the director of the Obesity Prevention and Policy Research Center at the Brown School. Video available.

Photo by Mary ButkusSimona Mirela Miculescu (left), United Nations ambassador from Romania, addresses a town hall meeting March 24 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall as Thomas Schweich, J.D., visiting professor and ambassador-in-residence at the School of Law, looks on.

Photo by Mary ButkusMarion G. Crain, J.D., was installed as the Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law March 30 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall.

Photo by Mary ButkusRuben Littlehead Jr. performs a traditional dance during the 19th annual Pow Wow March 28 in the Field House.

The Pow Wow draws crowds from all over the Midwest to experience American Indian dancing, singing, drumming, arts, crafts and food. This event is free.

The Center for Research on Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CRIE) at the School of Law will host a conference on “The Economics and Law of Innovation” April 2 and 3 in Anheuser-Busch Hall. The conference will begin at 8:30 a.m. each day, with the keynote presentation at 12:20 p.m. Thursday, April 2. The goal of the […]

The Center for Research on Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Washington University School of Law will host a conference on “The Economics and Law of Innovation” on April 2-3 in Anheuser-Busch Hall. The conference will begin at 8:30 a.m. each day, with the keynote presentation at 12:20 p.m. on Thursday. The goal of the conference is to stimulate interdisciplinary dialogue and scholarship on innovation. As part of the conference, leading scholars in economics and the law will examine and discuss the provocative book, Against Intellectual Monopoly, by Michele Boldrin, Ph.D., the Joseph Gibson Hoyt Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences and chair of the economics department, and David Levine, Ph.D., the John H. Biggs Distinguished Professor of Economics in Arts & Sciences.

Students from various countries at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work will offer a taste of their homelands at the 15th annual International Festival beginning at 5 p.m. Sunday, March 22, in Lab Science Building, Room 300.

The School of Law will host a delegation of 10 senior diplomats from the United Nations for a public town hall meeting on “Food Security and Humanitarian Intervention” on Tuesday, March 24, from 9-11 a.m. in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall.