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Fengtao Wu, a senior lecturer in Chinese in Arts & Sciences, offers one of the nation’s “very best” university courses in Chinese, according to a recent College Board Advanced Placement World Languages Best Practices Course Study. Conducted by the Eugene, Ore.-based Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC), the College Board study identified Wu’s third-level “Modern Chinese […]

The Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design, part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has been ranked fifth in the nation by Architect magazine in its first annual education survey. The survey, published in the magazine’s November issue, examined 117 programs recognized by the National Architectural Accrediting Board.

A $10 million commitment has been made to Washington University by alumnus and philanthropist Harry Seigle, and his wife, Susan, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. It is the lead gift for the building currently under construction on the western end of the Danforth Campus that will serve academic functions for the three social science departments in Arts & Sciences and for the School of Law. When it opens for the fall 2008 semester, it will be known as Harry and Susan Seigle Hall. The name is significant, for it represents the first academic building on the Danforth Campus to be named for an alumnus living outside of St. Louis.

In most hospital emergency rooms, patients with head injuries typically receive computed tomography (CT) scans to assess the damage. But brain injuries that lead to concussions rarely show up as abnormalities on such scans. So Washington University physicians at Barnes Hospital’s Charles F. Knight Emergency and Trauma Center have decided to go one step further. They are the only doctors in the St. Louis area who give a simple neurocognitive test to head injury patients to quickly identify concussions.

Should weather conditions create potentially hazardous travel conditions, Washington University will evaluate the situation and take into consideration the safety of the University’s faculty, staff and students as well as the services that must be provided despite the inclement weather.

James S. Kemp, M.D., will co-lead a campaign to prevent infant death due to unsafe sleep practices with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Jose L. Bermudez, Ph.D., Christina L. Fales, Ph.D., Robert H. Koff, Ph.D., Anna MacKay, And more…

Jeff Gill, Ph.D., Caitlin Kelleher, Ph.D., Peter Schmelz, Ph.D., Roya Beheshti Zavareh, Ph.D.

The Washington University Police Department and Parking Services, in partnership with Hartmann’s Towing, will sponsor a free vehicle inspection service to students, faculty and staff Saturday, Dec. 1. Persons anticipating traveling by car for winter break can bring their vehicle to the parking lot outside the Police Department office on the South 40 between noon-3 […]

Parents of school-aged children might consider giving their children an enduring holiday gift this year: enrollment in a supplemental mathematics program. Dan Kimura, Ph.D., senior professor of computer science and engineering, opened St. Louis’ first Kumon center in 1984 in large part because of his disappointment in the math education his sons were getting.