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The Bear Cub Fund is soliciting grant applications from researchers who want to move inventions from their labs toward commercialization.

Courtesy PhotoThe Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ Des Lee Gallery presents “Bold Strokes and Finesse: The Stage Designs of John Ezell,” an exhibition beginning Sept. 11 that features the work of one of contemporary theater’s most influential set designers.

Photo by David KilperUno, winner of Best in Show at last spring’s Westminster Kennel Club dog show, makes an appearance on campus to celebrate the opening of the Danforth University Center.

Maggi Carfield, J.D., and Jennifer Carter-Johnson, J.D., Ph.D., are the School of Law’s inaugural Faculty Fellows. The goal of the Faculty Fellows Program is to train talented law graduates for success in the entry-level law teaching market by providing intensive feedback and assistance in developing academic legal scholarship. It also provides an opportunity for the fellows to gain teaching experience with the mentoring of experienced faculty.

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This fall, a host of programs, projects and panels have been developed by the VP Debate Program Planning Committee, in collaboration with other groups on campus, to engage students, faculty, staff, alumni, friends, and neighbors in the electoral process.

Photo by Robert BostonTodd Zenger, Ph.D., sets a standard for excellence both inside and outside the classroom.

Jeffrey M. Zacks, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, has received a five-year, $1,548,619 grant from the National Institute on Aging for research titled “Encoding and Remembering Events Across the Life Span.” The research, also supported by the School of Medicine’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, will test how people’s understanding of everyday […]

Recruiting faculty and staff to Washington University might have just gotten a little easier. The St. Louis Regional Higher Education Consortium (STLR-HERC) has added job listings from Barnes-Jewish Hospital, one of the St. Louis area’s biggest employers. The consortium, led by Washington University, works to increase interinstitutional collaboration in faculty and staff recruitment. It comprises […]

Alberto Friedmann hasn’t let a diagnosis of a degenerative joint disease stop him from doing anything he has wanted to do in life. In August, the exercise physiologist in the Division of Geriatrics and Nutritional Science and seventh-degree black belt received a lifetime achievement award from the Southeastern Martial Arts Hall of Fame in Orlando, […]