WUSTL study chosen as one of Top Ten Autism Research Advances of 2012
A groundbreaking study on young adults with autism, led by Washington University in St. Louis researcher Paul Shattuck, PhD, assistant professor at the Brown School, has been chosen as one of the “Top Ten Autism Research Advances of 2012” by the advocacy organization Autism Speaks.
Privacy law expert comments on Bork’s legacy
Robert Bork was a major figure in the history of
American law, and of the Supreme Court, says Neil Richards, JD,
professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis and former law
clerk for Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. “There is a great irony to Bork’s death this week, a
day after the House of Representatives voted to relax the privacy
protections in the so-called “Bork Bill,” the federal law that protects
the privacy of our video records.”
How to have a healthy holiday: The key is balance
There’s nothing wrong with a cookie or a glass of eggnog at the holidays, says Debra Haire-Joshu, PhD, director of the Center for Obesity Prevention and Policy Research and the Center for Diabetes Translation Research at Washington University in St. Louis and associate dean for research at the Brown School. The key, Haire-Joshu says, is balance.
Insights From India: The wrap-up
Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton shares some final thoughts after returning from the Fourth International Symposium on Energy and Environment: ACCESS (Abundant Clean Cost-effective Energy Systems for Sustainability) India and a meeting with the university’s International Advisory Council for Asia.
Apte to receive Macula Society’s Young Investigator Award
Rajendra S. Apte, MD, PhD, associate professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences and of developmental biology, has been chosen to receive the 2013 Young Investigator Award from the Macula Society.
Webcams, crowd-sourcing compelling tools in measuring effectiveness of bike lanes, other open spaces
A new study out of Washington University in St.
Louis is one of the first to use technology to effectively measure the
use of built environments — parks, greenways, trails and other man-made
public areas — as a means to improve public health. The study,
“Emerging Technologies: Webcams and Crowd-Sourcing to Identify Active
Transportation,” is being published this week in the American Journal of
Preventive Medicine. Lead author is J. Aaron Hipp, PhD, assistant
professor of public health at the Brown School.
Director of WUSTL’s Center for Violence and Injury Prevention comments on school tragedy in Connecticut
Melissa Jonson-Reid, PhD, professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, is director of the Center for Violence and Injury Protection, which is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is also a faculty scholar in WUSTL’s Institute for Public Health. She responds to the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
India 2012: Building a network
The McDonnell Academy Global Energy and Environmental Partnership (MAGEEP) — a consortium of 28 international universities — met in Mumbai, India, last week. S. Parasuraman, director of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, was a symposium co-host.
India 2012: Strengthening connections
The second half of the trip to India brought together members of the university’s International Advisory Council for Asia (IACA) Dec. 12-15 in New Delhi. U.S. Embassy official Donald Lu addressed the IACA meeting.
Sadat appointed special adviser on crimes against humanity
Leila Nadya Sadat, JD, the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, added another international honor to her resumé recently when she was appointed special adviser on Crimes Against Humanity by the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court.
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