Health KARE
Take a deep breath. Smooth your brow. Raise your hands and stomp your feet. It’s time to talk about art. Welcome to Kemper Art Reaches Everyone (KARE), a new arts engagement program designed for people with early-onset to moderate Alzheimer’s.
Entrepreneurship competitions launch Sept. 6
The Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
will kick off its two business plan competitions at 5:30 p.m. Thursday,
Sept. 6. Combined, the Olin Cup and YouthBridge Social Enterprise and
Innovation Competition will award more than $200,000 in funding for new
commercial and social ventures.
Nicholson new ombuds for Danforth faculty
Linda Nicholson, PhD, the Susan E. and William P. Stiritz Distinguished Professor in Women’s Studies in Arts & Sciences, has been named the new ombuds for Danforth Campus faculty at Washington University in St. Louis. The Office of Ombuds was established in September 2010 to provide faculty a confidential, informal place to discuss concerns about the university, its policies or its procedures.
Sports update Sept. 4: Volleyball opens season with six wins
The second-ranked volleyball team swept its first six opponents over the weekend to get off to a 6-0 start to the season.
Weeklong orientation takes law students into the community
Before settling down to study, groups of Washington University in St. Louis law students worked with a variety of area community groups like the Wellston Community Gardens during the School of Law’s Orientation Service Project Week.
Children taking steroids for asthma are slightly shorter than peers
Children who use inhaled steroid drugs for asthma end up slightly shorter at their full adult height than children who don’t use the drugs, new results from a comprehensive asthma study show. The study’s senior author is Robert C. Strunk, MD, the Donald Strominger Professor of Pediatrics.
WUSTL grads play key roles in NASA rover missions to Mars
Despite its midwest location, far away from massive
NASA mission control centers in Cape Canaveral, Fla., or Pasadena,
Calif., WUSTL can boast at least seven
graduates (and one current student) now making key contributions to
NASA’s latest mission to Mars, “Curiosity.”
Cohen, Mitra named Goldfarb professors
Barak A. Cohen, PhD, and Robi D. Mitra, PhD, have been named Alvin Goldfarb Distinguished Professors of Computational Biology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Human and soil bacteria swap antibiotic-resistance genes
Soil bacteria and bacteria that cause human diseases
have recently swapped at least seven antibiotic-resistance genes,
researchers at Washington University School of Medicine report on Aug.
31 in Science.
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