Author: Ken Duenke

Photo by Jennifer SilverbergAn enthusiastic crowd urges on Arts & Sciences sophomore Jake Galgon (center) at the St. Louis Indoor Rowing Championships Feb. 3 in Francis Gym. Washington University Crew and the St. Louis Rowing Club host the annual competition, which has averaged more than 100 participants a year for 12 years.

The center will provide support and training on empirical legal research to students and colleagues by offering courses and seminars in the law school, as well as training institutes for law school and social science faculty.

Interested in being a part of the 17th annual powwow at Washington University in St. Louis? Join members of the St. Louis community at the upcoming Community Powwow Meeting from 5:30 – 8 p.m. on Feb. 19 in Goldfarb Hall, Room 124.

SemenkovichInterrupting nerve signals to the liver can prevent diabetes and hypertension in mice, according to scientists at the School of Medicine. The finding is reported in the February issue of the journal Cell Metabolism. A research team led by Clay Semenkovich surgically removed the vagus nerve in mice and found the procedure prevented or reversed the development of insulin resistance and high blood pressure in mice primed to develop these disorders through treatment with glucocorticoids.

Photo by David KilperDrug pioneer Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert teaches middle-school kids about chemical engineering

Leading experts in the fields of mental health services, civic service and human behavior are part of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work’s spring lecture series. The first lecture, “Community Engagement in Mental Health Services Research: What Happens to Science and Scientists When Partners Come First?” by Kenneth B. Wells, M.D., professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine and professor of health services at the UCLA School of Public Health, is at noon Feb. 5 in Brown Hall Lounge.

Faculty and graduate students from St. Louis-area universities with an interest in topics relating to labor, households, health care, law and social welfare are invited to take part in a series of Monday brown-bag luncheon seminars to be held biweekly through April 30. Now in its 11th year, the series is designed to promote interdisciplinary research in areas related to labor, households, health care, law and social welfare.

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The lectures take place at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 5, Feb. 19 and April 2 in Hurst Lounge in Duncker Hall and are free and open to the public.

Lihong Wang, Ph.D., became the first Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering in a Nov. 29 ceremony.