Author: Ken Duenke

HarringtonThe uncertain economy of the last few years has some wondering if American innovation and ingenuity is in decline, but not Kenneth Harrington and Robert Skandalaris. Harrington, director of the Skandalaris Entrepreneurship Program at the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis and Skandalaris, founder and Chairman of Noble International Ltd, are collaborating on a book on entrepreneurship and find it alive and well. But in a recent article, they caution that “people, organizations, institutions, and governments that don’t have a strategy to lead in entrepreneurial innovation will be displaced or at serious risk of becoming obsolete.” The Washington University business school launches its 2004 Olin Cup Entrepreneurship Competition this month with special events, speakers, and workshops. Washington University recently received a major grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to expand entrepreneurship education campus-wide.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), car crashes are the leading cause of death for children. Almost 2,000 children age 14 and under are killed in automobile crashes each year and another 280,000 are injured. Proper use of car seats reduces the risk of death significantly — by as much as 71 percent for infants and by about 55 percent for toddlers. The CDC also estimates that 50,000 serious injuries could be prevented and 455 lives saved each year if all children under 5 used safety seats. In spite of the dangers, 40 percent of American children 4 and under routinely ride unrestrained. But Emergency Department physicians at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis are trying to change that. They are targeting low income families, training them in proper use of child safety seats and then giving those families gift certificates that can be redeemed for the seats. The Safe and Secure program hopes to cut down on deaths and injuries from car crashes by providing more than 2,000 free car and booster seats to Missouri families who live below the poverty level as determined by Medicaid.

Poet and Nobel Prize-winning chemist Roald Hoffmann will use examples from chemistry, poetry, painting and ceramics to make a case for an underlying unity of science and the arts.

The Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present a “Young Choreographers Showcase” April 2-4 in the Annelise Mertz Dance Studio in Mallinckrodt Student Center. The lineup will feature an eclectic collection of works by eight student choreographers from the PAD’s Dance Program. All works were selected by a jury of dance faculty. Styles […]

An unpleasant postoperative procedure for patients who have had their thyroid glands surgically removed may be unnecessary for some.

Photo by Bob BostonResearch lab supervisor Jon Walker and Gerhard Bauer work in the new state-of-the-art Good Manufacturing Practice center.The Good Manufacturing Practice center is a haven of high-tech environmental control, comparable in some respects to the International Space Station.

The new center aims to support the study, research and teaching of ethics in areas ranging from medicine to business to architecture.

The admitted students, who received an open invitation to visit any time in late March or April, were chosen from almost 20,000 applications.

Accomplished poet and playwright Ntozake Shange will deliver the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture for the Assembly Series at 4 p.m. April 8 in Graham Chapel. Shange is best known for her unique “choreopoem” for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, published in 1975. Considered radical at the time for […]

Elliot C. Nelson led a study examining genetic influences on blackouts in general and on the incidence of having three or more of them in a year. More medical articles