Cafe United Way

Photo by Mary ButkusStudents, faculty and staff bought lunch and raffle tickets for prize baskets at GWB’s Cafe United Way and United Way Rally Raffle.

Key brain structure changes over time

File photoLei Wang, Deanna Barch and John Csernansky review brain images at the Silvio Conte Center for Neuroscience Research.Researchers are working to identify changes as early as possible in an effort to halt Alzheimer’s progress before people become severely impaired.

Critic Vendler, poet Graham in ‘Conversations About Poetry’

Renowned critic Helen Vendler and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham will participate in a three-day discussion on poets and poetry Oct. 15-17 as part of the University’s Fall Reading Series 2003, sponsored by The Writing Program and the Department of English, both in Arts & Sciences. “Conversations About Poetry” will kick off at 8 p.m. […]

Forming bonds

Photo by Bob BostonDean Larry J. Shapiro welcomes Sen. Kit Bond, who was visiting the Medical Campus to discuss technology transfer.

Former New York Times managing editor Gerald Boyd to address journalism’s challenges

Gerald Boyd, former managing editor of The New York Times, will deliver the Greg Freeman Legacy Lecture at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21 in Graham Chapel at Washington University. The talk is free and open to the public. Graham Chapel is located just north of Mallinckrodt Center (6445 Forsyth) on the University’s main campus. Boyd’s talk is titled “Journalism 2003: Meeting Challenges from Race to Credibility.”

Pollak receives grant from MacArthur Foundation

A grant for $550,000 from the MacArthur Foundation will allow the MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy to finish its long term research project which investigates the dynamics of family functioning and the well-being of children born to unmarried parents. Robert Pollak, Ph.D., Hernreich Distinguished Professor of Economics in arts & sciences and the John M. Olin School of Business, co-directs the Network, which brings together 13 scholars in economics, sociology, developmental psychology and public policy to advance understanding of the connections between families, labor markets and the economy as a whole.

A commitment to excellence

Wayne M. Yokoyama, M.D., gives that advice to medical students and postdoctoral fellows aiming to become independent researchers. “Work hard, exceed people’s expectations and you’ll be successful,” he continues. “We are often limited most by constraints we place on ourselves.” That philosophy helped Yokoyama become a two-time Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, the Sam J. […]

Against all odds

Carol S. North was camping in rural Missouri with her two Great Danes on Sept. 11, 2001. Shortly after the hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, reporters started calling. Soon she had been tracked down and brought back to town. To understand why the media immediately went looking for North […]
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