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Instilling hope
Photo by Mary ButkusLarry J. Shapiro, M.D. (left), executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, dedicates the Christopher Wells Hobler Laboratory for ALS Research in the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders Feb. 18.
Breathing a little easier
Photo by Robert BostonMario Castro combats lung disorders in the lab and around the world
Better teachers?
The Missouri Senate approved a bill Feb. 26 that would make it easier for people to switch jobs to become teachers. But if enacted, would the bill increase teacher quality in the state? Probably not, says an expert in science and mathematics education at Washington University in St. Louis.
Access to Olin Library to require WUSTL ID after 9 p.m.
Beginning March 16, a current Washington University identification card will be required of each person entering the John M. Olin Library or the adjoining Whispers Cafe after 9 p.m.
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.
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.
Practicing information retrieval is key to memory retention
Learning something once — like the fact that berg means mountain in German — and studying it over and over again may do little to help you remember it in the future. The key to future recall, suggests a new study from Washington University, is how often over time you actively practice retrieving that information from memory.
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.
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