Author: Ken Duenke

Jay Turner, William Wallace, Alison Whelan and Peter Wiedenbeck will receive Distinguished Faculty Awards; Robert S. Brookings Awards will go to Sam Fox and Jack Taylor.

The director of the National Institute of Health National Human Genome Research Institute, he will talk on “Genomics, Medicine and Society.”

View more of the scenes from around the campuses during the 150th Birthday Party.

Three European jazz combos will launch the University’s fall Jazz at Holmes Series with a pair of free Thursday-evening performances Sept. 25 and Oct. 2. Sicilian pianist Antonio Figura and his trio will join Tuscan saxophonist Nico Gori and his quartet for a joint appearance Sept. 25. Both groups — which are based in Florence […]

Students in the inaugural Executive MBA class of a joint program between the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis and Fudan University School of Management in Shanghai, China, arrived in St. Louis on September 6 for two weeks packed with classes and celebrations. The 70 students from China completed their MBA degrees with a capstone two-week residency at the Washington University business school.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will collaborate with Assistant Professor Jeffrey T. Macher of the Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and Associate Professor Jackson A. Nickerson of the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis as part of its strategic initiative to modernize the regulation of pharmaceutical manufacturing and product quality. Under the terms of the material transfer agreement with the FDA, Macher and Nickerson will conduct research and analysis to help the FDA identify the factors that predict manufacturing performance to further refine the agency’s risk-based site selection model for inspections as well as its other efforts to target identified risks to pharmaceutical quality and strengthen its pharmaceutical compliance program.

The George Warren Brown School of Social Work’s fall lecture series will address a broad spectrum of social issues, ranging from affirmative action to neighborhood capacity building. The series will kick off Sept. 24 at 4:30 p.m. with a lecture by Amitai Etzioni, Ph.D., director of the Institute of Communitarian Policy Studies, on ” My Brother’s Keeper: Reflections of a Communitarian.”

The Global Service Institute (GSI) of the Center for Social Development (CSD) at George Warren Brown School of Social Work (GWB) will host its second international research forum, “Civic Service: Impacts and Inquiry,” Sept. 24-26. Symposium participants, drawn from more than 20 countries, will address the impact of civic service, and will continue the discussion that began at the first GSI conference in Buenos Aires last year. The first conference addressed the history, implementation, and forms of civic service worldwide.

A study has provided key information about kidney development that could have implications for tissue regeneration.

Paul A. Volcker, a former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, will deliver the Assembly Series lecture at Washington University. The talk will take place at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 24 in Graham Chapel, located just north of Mallinckrodt Center (6445 Forsyth Blvd.) on the Washington University campus. Assembly Series lectures are free and open to the public. Volcker’s talk is also the John M. Olin School of Business’ Sesquicentennial lecture.