Active Transportation Month promotes alternative commuting
Car Free Month has a new name, but the same goal – to motivate Washington University in St. Louis students, faculty and staff to try new ways to get around town. Now called Active Transportation Month, the annual event starts April 1 and features free bike tune-ups, a breakfast for bikers and a Metro Scavenger Hunt.
Marshall installed as inaugural James W. and Jean L. Davis Professor
Fiona Marshall, PhD, an archaeologist in the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, was installed Feb. 10 as the inaugural James W. and Jean L. Davis Professor. The professorship is named in tribute to the lifelong contributions of the Davises to the university.
Spring break trips teach power of ‘service, friendship and community’
Washington University in St. Louis students volunteers built homes in Oklahoma, dug fish ponds in Panama and helped establish medical clinics in Honduras, learning as much about themselves as about other cultures. Sophomore Itzel Lopez said she learned three lessons during her trip to help migrant farm workers in Texas: “The significance of being present, the gift of gratitude and hope and the blessing of acknowledgement.”
Washington University, St. Louis to host anthropology, human biology scientific meetings March 24-28
The importance of human milk in evolution and modern
health; biology and race in Ferguson; and the latest research on Cahokia
Mounds will be among the presentation topics as three major human
biology and anthropology professional groups converge in St. Louis for
their annual scientific meetings March 24-28.
Global conference to focus on emerging infectious diseases
Researchers from around the world will gather April 10 to discuss the risk of emerging infectious diseases, and how best to translate research to clinical care, at the third annual conference of the Washington University Center for Global Health and Infectious Disease.
Washington People: Nancy Morrow-Howell
Nancy Morrow-Howell, PhD, is a national leader in gerontology, widely known for her work on productive and civic engagement of older adults. She is also the Bettie Bofinger Brown Distinguished Professor of Social Policy at the Brown School, faculty director of productive aging research at the Center for Social Development and director of the Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging, part of the Institute for Public Health, all at Washington University in St. Louis.
Skandalaris Center hosts student debate team March 25
The Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Washington Univeristy in St. Louis will host the student debate team for a special event Wednesday, March 25. The students will debate the topic “Resolved: Research Universities Should Encourage Entrepreneurial Activity by Students and Faculty” at 5:30 p.m. in Umrath Lounge on the Danforth Campus.
Kurtzman, Oros honored for efforts to combat hunger
Stephanie Kurtzman, director of the Community Service Office and associate director of the Gephardt Institute for Public Service at Washington University in St. Louis, and LuAnn Oros, community consultant on hunger and homelessness in the Community Service Office, recently were recognized by Operation Food Search as important food drive partners.
Drama, mortality and robots
Can theater movement-training techniques help real-life computer scientists improve human/robot interactions? Beginning March 26, director Annamaria Pileggi will put that theory to the test with “Sky Sky Sky,” a world premiere drama featuring three human actors and one PR2 robot. Performances take place in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre, located in Mallinckrodt Center, 6465 Forsyth Blvd.
10th annual African Film Festival showcases innovative filmmakers, powerful stories
Oscar-nominated film “Timbuktu,” the Mauritanian masterpiece about Islamist extremists and the community that dares to defy them, headlines this year’s African Film Festival at Washington University in St. Louis, held March 27-29. Other highlights include a youth matinee and a discussion with filmmaker Ekwa Msangi.
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