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A recent case-study competition organized by the Health Professional Student Leadership Council allowed students from various programs to learn how to collaborate across disciplines to improve patient care. Pictured is Lana Joseph, a doctoral student in audiology, explaining her thoughts on a case to physical therapy student Kelsi Smith while nursing student Stacie Chaffin listens.

Timothy Eberlein, MD, chairman of the Department of Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been elected president of the Southern Surgical Association.

Lindsey Steinberg has been selected to receive the 2013 Sowden Prize, given each year by the Department of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences. The prize, named in honor of the late John C. Sowden, a professor of chemistry  and a successful carbohydrate chemist, is the highest honor the Chemistry Department bestows on a graduating senior chemistry major.

Hoping to help future generations of WUSTL students as they themselves have been helped, the Senior Class Council recently kicked off its Senior Gift Campaign with a rousing, fun video featuring Chancellor Wrighton and a group of seniors dancing the Harlem Shake in the chancellor’s office.

“Design Thinking and Innovation,” presented in cooperation with KC America’s Creative Crossroads, will be held from 7-9 a.m., Wednesday, April 24 at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City. The  interdisciplinary executive education seminar is taught by faculty members from Washington University in St. Louis’ Olin Business School and the College of Architecture.

Discovering ways to honor the dignity of individuals coping with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias is the goal of an interdisciplinary symposium on “Finding Humanity in Advanced Dementia” to be held in Wilson Hall on the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St Louis on Saturday, April 27.

More than 1,600 people participated in the 12-hour, overnight Relay for Life April 13 and 14, which raised $220,287 for the American Cancer Society. Organized by students, WUSTL’s 11th annual Relay for Life opened with a symbolic “survivors’ lap” around Bushyhead Track.

Lisa Alvarez-Cohen, PhD, a professor of environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, will give the Ninth Annual Ryckman Lecture at 1:30 p.m. Friday, April 19. Alvarez-Cohen, the Fred and Claire Sauer Professor and past chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, will speak on “From Individuals to Community: […]

Fashion design is both a singular practice and a series of interrelated skills, from sketching and patternmaking to tailoring and construction. But for Washington University fashion majors, the puzzle pieces all come together May 5 when the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts presents its 84th Annual Fashion Design Show.

Gerald L. Early, PhD, the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters at Washington University in St. Louis, delivered a talk during his induction ceremony into the St. Louis Walk of Fame April 11 on Delmar Boulevard in The Loop. To read the piece, click here.