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At a time when the American economy needs the best and the brightest economic minds, prominent banker and philanthropist Sam B. Cook has given Washington University a critical resource to help develop the next generation of economic leaders with a gift of $1.5 million to establish a professorship in the Department of Economics in Arts & Sciences.

Three new three-week Summer Institutes for high school students will be offered at Washington University in St. Louis in 2011. The High School Summer Institutes — one of which focuses on creative writing, one on Japanese popular culture and on one pre-medical topics — are part of Washington University’s High School Summer Experiences program in Arts & Sciences.

Students perform a dance Feb. 5 in Edison Theatre at the Lunar New Year Festival, the annual event sponsored by Asian student groups on campus. 2011 is the Year of the Rabbit, and people born under this Chinese symbol are said to be articulate, talented and ambitious.

The Hindustan Times – Patna Edition
 How to turn bacteria against themselves
 02/09/2011 Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have explained a mechanism by which bacteria protect themselves from their own toxins. Bacteria often attack with toxins designed to hijack or even kill host cells. But they also have ways to […]

BBC News | Health (UK) Chromosome fault linked to sleepwalking 2/8/2011 A genetic link to sleepwalking has been identified by researchers. They studied four generations of a family of sleepwalkers and concluded that the condition is associated with a fault in a section of chromosome 20, BBC News reported. Just one copy of the defective […]

UPI
 Bills to restrict abortion to get hearings
 02/07/2011 Expanded restrictions on federal funding of abortion get separate committee hearings this week in the U.S. House of Representatives, but observers don’t foresee the measures making it through the Senate. “They can’t expect this legislation to go beyond the House of Representatives,” said Steve Smith, a […]

The inaugural class has been selected for the Professional Leadership Academy & Network (PLAN), a yearlong professional development program intended to cultivate future leaders at Washington University in St. Louis. And according to PLAN committee members, it was no easy task to choose the class of 26 from the “talented staff pool” of applicants.

The Pitch
 Carmon Colangelo to speak at Epperson Auditorium, Kansas City 02/04/2011 Carmon Colangelo, a pioneering printmaker whose work combines surrealism and abstraction with the exploration of art history, science and technology, will speak as part of the Current Perspectives Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Feb 24 in the Epperson Auditorium in Kansas City. Colangelo […]

Doc M. Billingsley, graduate student in anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $9,445 grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for research titled “Networks of K’iche Knowledge Production: An Ethnography of Memory in Practice.” … Peter Burgers, PhD, the Marvin A. Brennecke Professor of Biological Chemistry, received an honorary doctorate in medicine from Umeå […]

Cultural critic and Iranian scholar Hamid Dabashi, PhD, will give an Assembly Series presentation at 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 10, in Steinberg Hall Auditorium. His address, “The End of an Islamic Republic,” is free and open to the public. A prolific author, Dabashi has published 20 books on Islamic and Iranian history, philosophy, art and culture; Persian and comparative literature; current affairs; world cinema; and the aesthetics of art.