Engineering and curry: International program offers unique experience
The elective International Experience in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering allows WUSTL undergraduates the opportunity to study energy science at a top university in another country.
Health Happening wellness fair Oct. 28
Medical school employees can test their fitness and learn about smoking cessation at the Health Happening wellness fair Oct. 28.
Genome Center’s data facility gets LEED Gold certification
The Genome Center’s new data facility has received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Shapiro to give Dean’s Update
The annual Dean’s Update to the School of Medicine will be Oct. 29 from 2-3 p.m., and Nov. 4 from 10-11 a.m. in Connor Auditorium.
Music to their ears
Photo by Robert BostonRehan Hasan, a third-year doctoral student in the Program in Physical Therapy, sings songs he wrote about relationships at the student coffeehouse.
WUSTL’s Nobel laureate welcomes new prize winners
Douglass C. North, Ph.D., the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts & Sciences, was fielding calls from around the world after this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in economics were announced.
Longtime medical school dean M. Kenton King dies at 84
M. Kenton King, M.D., former dean of the School of Medicine, died Oct. 15, 2009, at his home in University City. He was 84.
New treatments improve outlook for pancreatic cancer patients
A team of surgeons and oncologists at the Siteman Cancer Center at the School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital is aggressively tackling pancreatic cancer — one of the deadliest forms of cancer — and conducting clinical trials of innovative treatment regimens.
Douglass North speaks out on 2009 Nobel Prize in economics
“A lot of people were horrified that it was the first time a political scientist got the prize,” says Douglass C. North in a video interview on the 2009 Nobel prize in economics. North North, a 1993 recipient of the prestigious award, defends this year’s winners, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson, as pioneers in the New Institutional Economics that uses an interdisciplinary approach to research. Traditional economists who favor formal mathematical model-based theory are critical of the institutional approach and Nobel recognition of the social sciences versus pure economics. North talks about this year’s winners, their work and New Institutional Economics in accompanying video.
ALS researchers encouraged by new mouse model
A new mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis closely resembles the paralyzing disorder in humans, School of Medicine researchers report.
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