Dancer Alonzo King to present discussion
In addition, King and Arturo Fernandez will set excerpts from two of King’s works on students in the Performing Arts Department.
Rostand named communications director for School of Social Work
Before joining the University, she was senior vice president of the health-care practice at Fleishman-Hillard in St. Louis.
Author, screenwriter Carcaterra to discuss writing for Assembly Series
His writing career is a story in itself, a journey from journalist to screenwriter and New York Times best-selling author.
Smoking and high-risk viruses pose danger for cervical cancer patients
Cancer patients infected with either of two strains of human papillomavirus were twice as likely to die of their disease.
Protein serves as motor for regenerating nerves
“We really thought that myosin II was just a motor, but it seems to help steer as well,” said senior investigator Paul C. Bridgman.
‘State of the Medical Center’
Larry J. Shapiro will present the annual address at 4 p.m. Sept. 20 and again at noon Sept. 21.
Marvelous mentors
Photo by Robert BostonThe Mentors in Medicine Program “provides eye-opening research opportunities to bright, young physicians.”
Author and screenwriter Lorenzo Carcaterra to talk about writing for the Assembly Series
CarcaterraLorenzo Carcaterra has made a career out of writing gritty, powerful novels that become bestsellers. He will discuss these compellingly human stories of crime and violence for the Assembly Series on Wednesday, September 21 at 11 a.m. in Graham Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.
Storms, politics, and the destruction of the American Gulf Coast: A Washington University faculty roundtable on what hurricane Katrina wrought
On Wed., Sept. 14, at 4 p.m. in McMillan Cafe (Room 115) in McMillan Hall, an interdisciplinary panel of Washington University professors will hold a conversation about the meaning and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Power of FEMA diluted by growing terrorism concerns, says government decision-making expert
StaudtThe devastating conditions in the Gulf Coast have left many Americans asking, “Why did the government fail when Katrina hit?” “The answer to this question can be linked to the organizational changes that occurred in the federal government after September 11, 2001,” says Nancy Staudt, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis and expert on government decision-making. “At that time, the federal government began to worry about fragmented and uncoordinated relief efforts and sought to create a more streamlined approach to dealing with national disasters. FEMA was placed in a mammoth bureaucracy with less authority to respond to natural disasters; its power was diluted by the growing concerns for terrorism.”
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