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Rose Windmiller has been named assistant vice chancellor for government and community relations, and Leah Merrifield the executive director for academic-civic engagement in the Office of Government and Community Relations, announced Pamela Lokken, vice chancellor for government and community relations.

Psychology Today / National Humanities Center Bright spots and blind spots in self-knowledge 9/7/2010 How well do you know yourself? How well do you know what makes you happy? Do others know things about you that you don’t know about yourself? If so, can you improve your self-understanding, bring your view of yourself more into […]

Looking to kick the semester off right by doing something good for the community? Volunteer to donate blood during the first of four university-wide blood drives to be held this year. The drive will take place Sept. 14 at eight different locations on the Danforth, Medical and West campuses.

A press conference will be held Wed., Sept. 8 to announce results of the first study to monitor airborne nicotine in St. Louis area bars and restaurants.

Washington University will test its emergency notification system, WUSTLAlerts, at approximately 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 15. For the test, WUSTLAlerts will send e-mails to @wustl.edu addresses, voice messages to campus phones and cell phones and text messages to cell phones.  

Of the 12 categories of workplace injuries and illnesses Washington University’s Office of Environmental Health & Safety tracks, “slips, trips and falls” is the category that usually contains the most serious injuries that faculty and staff sustain. Faculty, staff and students can follow these tips to keep their footing.

The Telegraph (UK) Comet impact did not cause mammoths to die out, say scientists 9/5/2010 Scientists recently put forward the idea that a comet was behind the extinctions after tiny crystals of carbon, known as nanodiamonds, were found in 12,900 year old sediment layers. But scientists now claim to have disproved the controversial theory after […]

Of note Bruce Backus, assistant vice chancellor for environmental health and safety, was named president-elect of the Campus Safety Health and Environmental Management Association (CSHEMA) at the CSHEMA conference in Baltimore in July. CSHEMA is dedicated to continual improvement of environmental health and safety at colleges and universities and provides information-sharing opportunities, continuing education and […]

Inside School Research How about teaching with the test, rather than to it? 09/03/2010 The Department of Education just handed out $330 million in grants to two state coalitions to design the “next-generation” tests of students’ readiness for college and careers. In the latest issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, […]

Born and raised in Chicago, Carol Camp Yeakey, PhD, knew from an early age that cities would play a commanding role in her life.