Project Blacktop: Student athlete Cooney works to make a difference in St. Louis
Student athlete Tim Cooney grew up in St. Louis and rarely had a place where his friends could gather and play a pickup game of basketball. Cooney, a junior guard on the WUSTL men’s basketball team, is trying to change that for future generations.
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland honors Dacey
Ralph. G. Dacey Jr., the Henry G. and Edith R. Schwartz Professor and chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at Washington University, has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He traveled to Dublin earlier this month to receive the honor.
Human Connectome Project releases major data set on brain connectivity
The Human Connectome Project, a five-year endeavor to
link brain connectivity to human behavior, has just released a set of
high-quality imaging and behavioral data to the scientific community. Shown is a map of the average “functional connectivity” in the human cerebral cortex, collected on healthy subjects while “at rest” in the MRI scanner.
Cameras in CWE and on Medical Campus among new security steps taken
Ninety-one security cameras are being installed in the Central West End, 60 of which will be funded by the Washington University Medical Center. An additional 42 such cameras will be installed throughout the medical campus. The cameras are part of ongoing security efforts that also include more bike patrols.
Engineers Week inspires current and future engineers
The annual Engineers Week, held Feb. 25-March 2,
featured activities ranging from a paper airplane contest to a butter-sculpting competition to a lecture
by cast members of the Discovery Channel’s “Mythbusters” television show. Read more to see video and photos.
Senior Jeremy I. Pivor named a Luce Scholar
The Henry Luce Foundation named Jeremy I. Pivor one of
18 scholars in the 40th class of Luce Scholars this February. Chosen
from a field of 168 nominees, he is the third Washington University
student to be named a scholar in the past four years.
Art and politics during World War II
Does art have a moral duty to be politically engaged? On Thursday, March 7, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will explore that question and more with “Committed Culture: A Panel Discussion on Politics and Aesthetics During World War II.”
Trocchi, Wagoner literary archives added to Modern Literature Collection
A pair of extensive, unique collections arrived at Washington University Libraries in recent weeks, their wide-ranging contents anticipated to be of much interest to scholars and others wishing to explore the remarkable literary career of either David Wagoner or Alexander Trocchi.
Trustees meet, hear presentations on orthopedic surgery developments
At the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees meeting Thursday and Friday, Feb. 28 and March 1, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton reported on a number of recent developments on the Medical and Danforth campuses. Trustees also heard special reports on innovations and developments in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the School of Medicine.
SCOTUS oral arguments reflect indifference to constitutional grounding of Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court appears very likely to strike down the most important provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, says Gregory P. Magarian, JD, constitution law expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. “This was an unusually revealing oral argument, because two justices asked questions that reflected both fundamental misunderstanding of the law and disturbing indifference to the constitutional grounding of the Voting Rights Act,” he says.
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