National Bike to Work Day is May 17
Friday, May 17, is National Bike to Work Day. For nearly 20 years, School of Medicine faculty Laura Bierut and Brad Evanoff have been riding their bikes to work. Earlier this week, they rode their tandem bike to the Medical Campus. The two encourage others to ride their bikes to work, too.
Bear Cub grants foster entrepreneurship
Five Washington University scientists, including Jung-Tsung Shen, PhD, recently received Bear Cub grants. The funding helps researchers commercialize their discoveries.
MEDIA ADVISORY: Washington University Commencement is 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 17
Washington University’s 152nd Commencement begins at 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 17, in Brookings Quadrangle. The university will award 2,873 degrees to 2,752 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. The university also will bestow honorary degrees on six individuals, including Commencement speaker Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J.
IRS investigation spotlights need for Inspectors General
An executive branch Inspector General played a critical
role in exposing the IRS’s practice of targeting Tea Party groups, says
Kathleen Clark, JD, anti-corruption expert and professor of law at
Washington University in St. Louis. “As we see with the IRS controversy, an Inspector General investigation can cause heads to roll.
Perhaps that’s why some government agencies have been without an
Inspector General for a very long time – measured not in months, but in
years.” Clark notes that the State Department has been without an
Inspector General for more than five years.
Apollo 17 astronaut visits WUSTL for week of events related to lunar exploration
Harrison “Jack” Schmitt, a geologist and Apollo 17 astronaut, will be
visiting Washington University in St. Louis the week of May 20 for a
round of activities centered on lunar exploration, including a seminar about Schmitt’s geological exploration of the Moon’s Valley of Taurus-Littrow, an “exploration forum” and the review meeting of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera’s team, which is being hosted by WUSTL’s Brad Jolliff.
Washington University School of Law’s Women’s Law Caucus announces International Women’s Day awards
The Washington University School of Law Women’s Law
Caucus (WLC) recently gathered with faculty, alumni, judges and
attorneys to honor the organization’s 40th anniversary and to observe
the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. As part of the annual celebration, the WLC also presented the International Women’s Day honorary awards.
Morris receives top Alzheimer’s Association honor
WUSTL neurologist John C. Morris, MD,
has received the Alzheimer’s Association’s Medical and Scientific Award for
2013.
Engineering undergrads create game-changing asthma management device
Engineering students Andrew Brimer and Abigail Cohen have created a low-cost, portable spirometer which they hope will revolutionize the way asthma and other chronic respiratory diseases are diagnosed and treated. They credit the entrepreneurial spirit of Washington University with helping to nuture and push their device along.
First Year Reading Program selection deals with race in America
Notes from No Man’s Land, the book selected for Washington University’s 2013-14 First Year Reading Program, examines race in America through the unique perspective of author Eula Biss. Biss weaves her own experiences through essays about mixed families, lynchings, Americans behaving badly in Mexico, being a white reporter at an African-American newspaper, teaching at an inner city school and much more.
WUSTL alumna selected as a 2013 National Geographic Emerging Explorer
Bethany Ehlmann, who graduated from WUSTL in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in earth and planetary science, has been selected as one of 17 Emerging Explorers by National Geographic. The Emerging Explorers Program recognizes
and supports uniquely gifted and inspiring adventurers, scientists and
innovators who are at the forefront of discovery, adventure and global
problem-solving while still early in their careers.
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