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Perez“During an election season, students tend to stand up and take action about things they care about. It’s exciting when students get involved in something they believe in, something that is a reflection of their morals and their values.” Perez is working long hours to help disseminate funding for student debate-related projects and working to make sure students are registered to vote. Hometown: Tampa, FL

 Lewis  “Helping tenants who were being evicted because their landlords lost the properties to the foreclosure crisis and working with tenant organizing groups and community organizers was an eye-opening and life-changing experience.” Whether it was the dinnertime conversations about the state of society or the exceptional example set by her parents, something has driven Kate Lewis to politics and community service from an early age. Hometown: Springfield, IL

Painschab“I’m not so much interested in the dogma of one political party or another, but in what the evidence has proven should actually work to make our health care system better.” Matthew Scott Painschab is concerned, first and foremost, with health care reform. The second-year medical student is co-coordinator of the School of Medicine’s Saturday Neighborhood Health Clinic, a free clinic for St. Louisans lacking health insurance. Hometown: Waverton, MN

Registration is open for the School of Medicine’s Mini-Medical School, now in its 10th year. This is an excellent opportunity to learn about medicine and surgery from Medical School faculty.

The Society for Nuclear Medicine (SNM) has created an annual award named for Michael J. Welch, Ph.D., professor of radiology, of developmental biology and of chemistry at the School of Medicine. Welch, who specializes in the synthesis of new radioactive chemicals for medical imaging, is head of the Radiochemistry Laboratory Institute at the Mallinckrodt Institute […]

To help facilitate interest and participation in the Oct. 2 vice presidential debate and presidential election in November, the Richard A. Gephardt Institute for Public Service is coordinating an all-day, campus-wide voter registration drive Sept. 18.

Photo by Kevin LowderYun Que (in black, next to car), a senior and executive board member of the student group Society of Automotive Engineers, introduces her organization to new engineering students at an orientation picnic Aug. 26 outside Lopata Hall.

Barry P. Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pathology and immunology, has been named director of the Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine. Skip Virgin, M.D., Ph.D., the Edward Mallinckrodt Professor and head of pathology and immunology, made the announcement. “Dr. Sleckman is an outstanding fundamental scientist interested in a range of basic processes that […]

Washington University in St. Louis has a rich tradition, dating back to the 1992 presidential debate, of providing debate tickets only to its students. The tradition began when then-Chancellor William H. Danforth decreed that he would prefer to give his ticket to a student rather than attend himself. Since then, hundreds of WUSTL students have been able to witness history first hand through the debate ticket lottery.

Terry Smith, J.D., professor of law at Fordham University and nationally recognized expert on race and politics, will kick off the School of Law’s 11th annual Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series at noon Sept. 23 with a timely talk on politics and racism. The fall lineup of speakers also includes an international peace […]