Author: Neil Schoenherr

The following incidents were reported to University Police Sept. 17-19. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police Web site at police.wustl.edu. Sept. 17 11 p.m. — Complainant reported that she left her purse containing two debit cards, one credit card, her cell phone and $18 at Ursa’s Café. When she returned at 12:50 a.m., the purse and its contents were missing. 3:23 p.m. Student reported her ID card lost or stolen within the past three days. Sept. 18 9:07 a.m. — A parking permit was reported stolen from a motorcycle.

Washington University will name its new university center in honor of Chancellor Emeritus William H. and the late Elizabeth (Ibby) Gray Danforth, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced Sept. 19. The building is under construction on the University’s Danforth Campus at the intersection of Forsyth Boulevard and Wallace Drive.

Cornerstone: The Center for Advanced Learning has received a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to support research that will help modify the Peer Led Team Learning program, which helps to meet the needs of students with disabilities enrolled in introductory chemistry, physics and calculus classes.

Washington University will name its new university center in honor of Chancellor Emeritus William H. and the late Elizabeth (Ibby) Gray Danforth, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced Sept. 19. The building is under construction on the University’s Danforth Campus at the intersection of Forsyth Boulevard and Wallace Drive.

“Universal health care is getting the attention it deserves, but unfortunately, the proposals receiving the most attention ignore the ‘Big Leak,'” the enormous non-benefit costs incurred by health care providers who must match their billions of billings with thousands of differing private health care plans,” says Merton C. Bernstein, a founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and the Coles Professor of Law Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis. “Putting everyone under the Medicare umbrella would eliminate that leak,” he says. Bernstein is available to discuss current universal health care proposals as well as the Medicare-for-all option.

Best-selling suspense author Ridley Pearson will read the children’s book, “The Story of Ferdinand” at 4 p.m. Sept. 20 in the University’s Campus Store on the Danforth Campus as part of the national “Read for the Record” program.

Photo by Bill StoverStudents living in the Park/Mudd and Brookings residential colleges may notice some wiser and more mature residents this semester. Joseph Thompson, Ph.D., of English and of African and African American Studies, both in Arts & Sciences; and Patrick Eisenlohr, Ph.D., assistant professor of linguistic anthropology in Arts & Sciences, have moved into apartments in Park/Mudd and Brookings, respectively. They are the two newest of five Faculty Fellows currently living the Danforth Campus’ South 40.

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Photo by Robert BostonHeidi Prather, D.O., specializes in treating women with musculoskeletal problems and injured performing artists, primarily dancers.

DiekmanTo help curb the expanding waist lines of her constituents, south Los Angeles City Councilwoman Jan Perry has proposed a two-year moratorium on new fast food restaurants in her district. If enacted in Los Angeles, or any other American city for that matter, would the plan work? Don’t count on it, says Connie Diekman, R.D., director of University nutrition and president of the American Dietetic Association.