A good book, a great setting
Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.Barbara Baumgartner, Ph.D. (top, center), associate director and senior lecturer in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program in Arts & Sciences, chats with freshmen outside the Danforth University Center Aug. 25. The group was discussing Elizabeth Kolbert’s book “Field Notes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change,” the book chosen for this year’s Freshman Reading Program.
Silver is key to reducing pneumonia associated with breathing tubes
School of Medicine research found that silver-coated endotracheal tubes led to a 36 percent reduction of ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Zacks receives $1.5 million grant to understand event memory
Jeffrey M. Zacks, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, has received a five-year, $1,548,619 grant from the National Institute on Aging for research titled “Encoding and Remembering Events Across the Life Span.”
Welcome to campus
Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr.Students were able to enjoy a variety of activities during Fall Orientation Aug. 21-26, such as dancing at the South 40 and participating in “SUp all night” in the Danforth University Center.
Popular brown-bag lunch series begins 13th year
Faculty and graduate students from St. Louis-area universities with an interest in labor, households, health care, law and social welfare are being invited to take part in a series of Monday brown-bag luncheon seminars to be held on campus biweekly through Dec. 1. Now in its 13th year, the “Work, Families and Public Policy” series […]
Campus community hard at work for October event
As the Oct. 2 vice presidential debate looms closer, many in the WUSTL community are hard at work preparing for its arrival.
Job listings added to HERC Web site
The St. Louis Regional Higher Education Consortium (STLR-HERC) has added job listings from Barnes-Jewish Hospital, one of the St. Louis area’s biggest employers.
Sam Fox School launches fall Public Lecture Series
Architect Mario Gooden launches the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Art’s fall Public Lecture Series Sept. 8.
Groups work together to provide debate programs
This fall, a host of programs, projects and panels have been developed by the VP Debate Program Planning Committee, in collaboration with other groups on campus, to engage students, faculty, staff, alumni, friends, and neighbors in the electoral process.
Sam Fox School launches fall Public Lecture Series
Architect Mario Gooden, a partner in Huff Gooden Architects in Charleston, S.C., will launch the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ fall Public Lecture Series Monday, Sept. 8. Gooden, also an adjunct associate professor at the Yale School of Architecture, established Huff Gooden in 1997 with architect Ray Huff. The firm specializes in […]
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