Art and science of brain function focus of dialogue with Aschheim
Exhibition artist Deborah Aschheim, known for her focus on interactive multisensory responses to neuroscience, memory and cognition, joins WUSTL faculty from art, medicine, psychology and neuroscience for a free public panel discussion examining the relationship between Aschheim’s art and brain science at 6 p.m. March 20 in Room 110, January Hall. The dialogue, held in […]
Sam Fox School to host symposium on ‘Blackness’ March 6
The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts will host a daylong symposium on “Architecture, Art and the Experience of Blackness” Thursday, March 6, in Steinberg Auditorium. The symposium will bring together more than a dozen speakers whose creative and scholarly works intersect with issues of race and identity.
Center for the Humanities announces Faculty Fellows
The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences has announced its Spring 2009 Faculty Fellows. The three recipients are: Guinn Batten, Ph.D., associate professor of English; Andrea Friedman, Ph.D., associate professor of history and Women & Gender Studies; and Jennifer Kapczynski, Ph.D., assistant professor of German, all in Arts & Sciences.
Radiology center puts research scanners in the heart of a hospital
When constructing the 9,000-square-foot Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology’s Center for Clinical Imaging Research inside of Barnes-Jewish Hospital, crews had to lift a massive piece of imaging equipment up to the 10th floor from the outside using a crane.
University earns ‘A’ in campus safety report
Washington University earned an “A” in a recent Reader’s Digest report about the safety of college campuses in the United States. The University was ranked eighth out of 135 institutions surveyed.
Corn’s genetic blueprint unveiled by University
A team of scientists led by Washington University has begun to unlock the genetic secrets of corn, a crop vital to U.S. agriculture.
Ready for a close-up
Photo by Robert BostonState legislators get a tour of the Center for Clinical Imaging Research at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
Hunt, former head of physiology and biophysics, 89
Carlton Cuyler Hunt, M.D., who headed the Department of Physiology from 1967-1983, died Friday, Feb. 8, 2008. He was 89.
Assembly Series to tackle pulsars, poetry
Burnell to speak on scientific discovery Radio astronomer and astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Ph.D., the first to discover pulsars, will describe her landmark work and current research 11 a.m. March 19 in Graham Chapel as part of the Assembly Series. Her talk, “In Pursuit of Pulsars,” is the annual Compton Science Lecture. Radio astronomy research […]
Of note
Jianmin Cui, Ph.D.,
Washington University’s Central Underground Garage,
and Karen L. Wooley, Ph.D.
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