Medical startup hatched at Washington University continues strong performance
Andrew Brimer and Abigail Cohen, May graduates from the
School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in
St. Louis and co-founders of the med-tech startup Sparo Labs, have won
the $150,000 CIMIT Student Technology Prize for Primary Care, bringing
their total competition winnings to more than $275,000.
My Name is Strong exhibit opens at Union Avenue Church
My Name Is Strong, a Clinton Global Initiative project, hosts an art exhibit Friday, Sept. 20 at Union Avenue Church. Some 45 works, including this piece(left) by Brown School student Kyle Brandt-Lubart, explore the issue of gender-based violence and celebrate the strength of its survivors.
Photo-palooza
More than 1,000 science researchers from around the world descended upon St.
Louis during the second week of August for what Provost Holden Thorp,
PhD, wittingly referred to as “Photo-palooza” for the gathering’s focus on photosynthesis research.
Washington University’s International Center for Advanced Renewable
Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES) served as host to the 11th Workshop
on Cyanobacteria and the Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC)
hosted the Light Harvesting Satellite Meeting 2013.
Two new NSF grants allow Bayly to study brain biomechanics
Philip Bayly, PhD, the Lilyan and E. Lisle Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering and chair the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, has received a three-year, $429,222 grant from the National Science Foundation to study mehanical properties in the brain.
Generating discussions, building community through First Year book selection
During her recent visit to campus, First Year Reading Program author Eula Biss had many opportunities to discuss her book of essays, Notes from No Man’s Land, with students. Here, she leads an informal discussion at Ursa’s Fireside on the South 40.
WUSTL to host environmental engineering conference
Washington University in St. Louis will host environmental engineering students and faculty from Missouri and Illinois Sept. 20-21 to learn
the latest in environmental engineering technologies and to share research. The 18th Annual Mid-American Environmental Engineering
Conference will be held Sept. 21 in the Stephen F. & Camilla T. Brauer Hall and is sponsored by the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science.
Leigh Schmidt’s installation address includes ‘Mystics, Cranks, and William James’
Leigh E. Schmidt, PhD, delivered the following address during his Sept. 3 installation ceremony as the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
World’s most innovative companies ranked by new metric developed at Olin Business School
Chinese search engine conglomerate Baidu Inc. leads the pack in a new ranking of the 50 most innovative companies in the world. The RQ50 ranking is based on the research quotient (RQ), developed by Anne Marie Knott, PhD, professor of strategy at Washington University in St. Louis’ Olin Business School.
High-design bird blind
Think of it as reverse camouflage. In the wild, animals use color and pattern to disguise themselves from predators. But last spring, a team from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts flipped the calculus. How, they asked, do we keep human observers from disturbing animals in their natural environments?
Wedner named Korenblat Professor
H. James Wedner, MD, (left) has been installed as the Dr. Phillip and Arleen Korenblat Professor at the School of Medicine, where he serves as chief of the division of allergy and clinical immunology. The named professorship, a gift from Jess and Alice Yawitz, honors their longtime friend and physician, Dr. Phillip E. Korenblat, and his wife, Arleen.
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