I-64/US40 construction update
The Tamm Avenue bridge is scheduled to open Oct. 20.
New $10 million MacArthur project integrates law and neuroscience
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is bringing together a distinguished group of scientists, legal scholars, jurists and philosophers from across the country to help integrate new developments in neuroscience into the U.S. legal system.
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Thursday, Oct. 18
• Dept. of Music Lecture Series — “Demonstration of Shinnai Narrative Song”
Friday, Oct. 19
• East Asian Studies Conference — Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs
Saturday, Oct. 20
• Physics Science Saturdays Lecture Series — “The Laws of Classical Physics Govern What Cardiologists See and Hear”
Wednesday, Oct. 24
• Global & Transnational Feminisms Lecture Series — “The Disappearing of Hannah Kudjoe: Women, Nation and the Tyranny of History”
Introducing new faculty members
J. Dillon Brown, Ph.D.,
Bill Bubelis, Ph.D.,
Sudarshan Jayaraman,
J. Lamar Pierce, Ph.D.,
And more…
Cooking accident damages Wohl Center
Shortly after 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, a cooking accident damaged five large windows in the South 40’s Wohl Center, on the northwest corner of the second floor. The incident was caused by a portable tabletop stove that malfunctioned when a butane fuel canister sprang a leak.
A new model of medical practice
(From L-R) Richard Gelberman, Chairman for the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, looks over floor plans for the new orthopedic surgery center with Larry Shapiro, Dean for the School of Medicine, and Chancellor Mark Wrighton.The recently completed outpatient orthopedic center in west St. Louis County demonstrates Washington University Orthopedics’ commitment to a new model of medical practice. Taking lessons from various industries and leading efficiency experts, faculty members deconstructed old processes to incorporate the latest solutions for reducing waste, improving quality and adding value and convenience to the patient experience.
Cooking accident damages Wohl Center windows
Shortly after 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, a cooking accident damaged five large windows in the South 40’s Wohl Center, on the northwest corner of the second floor. The incident was caused by a portable tabletop stove that malfunctioned when a butane fuel canister sprang a leak.
Landmark research to study development of area kids
The School of Medicine is collaborating with other area institutions in what will be the largest study of child and human health ever conducted in the United States.
New technologies add precision to prostate cancer treatments
An extra degree of precision will be added to radiation treatments for prostate cancer at the School of Medicine following the installation of two new technologies.
Roever Lectures to explain famous mathematical problem
One of the most famous problems in mathematics will be discussed at this year’s William H. Roever Lectures in Geometry, a two-day event hosted by the Department of Mathematics in Arts & Sciences in memory of its longtime chair. The lectures, a series of four talks, will be held Oct. 19-20 in Lopata Hall and are free and open to the public.
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