Author: Ken Duenke

Julie Otsuka, author of “When the Emperor Was Divine,” this year’s Freshman Reading Program selection, will present the Assembly Series/Neureuther Library Lecture at 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15, in Graham Chapel. Otsuka Otsuka’s debut novel explores themes of identity, loss and injustice. It is the story of a Japanese immigrant couple and their American-born children […]

An international team of scientists has identified two more genetic risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease. The findings are reported in the online edition of the journal Nature Genetics.

Jessica Jackley, co-founder of Kiva, the Internet-driven microfinance organization that connects lenders with budding entrepreneurs, will deliver the Assembly Series/Skandalaris Lecture at 5 p.m. Thursday, September 17 in Simon Hall’s May Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. This is the kickoff event for the Skandalaris Center’s annual business plan competitions: the Olin Cup, and the YouthBridge Social Entrepreneur and Innovation Competition.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) will host a regional meeting on Genomics and the Future of Medicine from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sept. 10 in the Eric P. Newman Education Center at the School of Medicine.

Julie Otsuka will present the Assembly Series and Neureuther Library lecture at 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, September 15 in Graham Chapel. Otsuka’s debut novel, “When the Emperor Was Divine” is this year’s Freshman Reading Program selection.

The Board of Trustees has authorized a fund-raising initiative designed to increase support for student scholarships. “Opening Doors to the Future: The Scholarship Initiative for Washington University” has a goal of raising $150 million to support scholarships and fellowships. A formal kickoff for the initiative will take place Nov. 7.

Washington University’s Board of Trustees has authorized a fundraising initiative designed to increase support for student scholarships. “Opening Doors to the Future: The Scholarship Initiative for Washington University,” has a goal of raising $150 million to support scholarships and fellowships. A formal kickoff for the initiative will take place on November 7, and the effort will continue through June 30, 2014.

MurrayDavid J. Murray has been appointed as chief of the Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology at the School of Medicine. Murray, the Carol B. and Jerome T. Loeb Professor and head of medical simulation at the School of Medicine, also becomes anesthesiologist-in-chief at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

Learning the language of cellular signaling: Mitsuru Morimoto, PhD, Shadmehr Demehri, PhD, and Raphael Kopan, PhD.Why do children with eczema so often get asthma? Experts in cellular signaling discovered how skin cells in danger might sound a body-wide alert. But lung cells in turn make an unfortunate response.

Students who learn history by watching historically based blockbuster movies may be doomed to repeat the historical mistakes portrayed within them, suggests a new study.