Author: Leslie Gibson McCarthy

Many new capabilities have been added to the Human Resources Management System (HRMS) Employee Self Service, allowing WUSTL employees to more easily and quickly manage their benefits and human resources records. The changes also promote sustainability by reducing the amount of paperwork required.

Sports updates for the week of Sept. 27, 2010.

Tokiyasu Fujita (left), former justice on the Supreme Court of Japan and Hiroshi Itoh, PhD, professor of political science at State University of New York at Plattsburgh, speak during the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law’s two-day symposium Decision-Making on the Japanese Supreme Court Sept. 10. The Center for Empirical Research in the Law hosted the conference.

“Japan Embodied: New Approaches to Japanese Studies,” is a four-semester Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series that examines the way the body has been discussed, experienced, and imagined in Japanese culture. The first seminar begins at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24, in Room 18, Busch Hall. The seminars, which are free and open to the public, will continue with events each semester through spring 2012.

Acclaimed author Jonathan Safron Foer, whose latest book, Eating Animals, chronicles his lifelong journey toward vegetarianism, will be on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30, in Graham Chapel (please note that this is a location change.) The Assembly Series lecture, co-sponsored by University Libraries, the Campus Bookstore and the senior honorary Mortar Board, is free and open to the public.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon leaves Washington University’s Brauer Hall with his wife, Georganne Wheeler Nixon, Friday, Sept. 17, after outlining his vision for Missouri’s energy future before a group of CEOs and other leaders of major energy producers and industrial and commercial energy consumers at the “Energy Policy Discussion.” The meeting was co-sponsored by the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and the School of Engineering & Applied Science.

Sports updates for the week of Sept. 20, 2010

The Gephardt Institute is sponsoring the annual Public Service Fair featuring more than 40 nonprofit organizations from 4:30-6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21, in the Danforth University Center Tisch Commons and Edison Family Courtyard. The fair is open students, faculty, staff and the local community.

Students packed College Hall Sept. 13 to hear international human rights lawyer and prominent political commentator Arsalan Iftikhar, JD, speak on Muslim identity in the United States’ post-9/11 era. A lively question-and-answer discussion followed his lecture titled, “The Pacifist Fundamentalist.”

Sports updates for the week of Sept. 13, 2010.