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Srinivasan Sridharan, PhD, professor of civil engineering since 1980, died April 24, 2011. He was 69.

Between 40-50 Washington University in St. Louis students each year make up the January Program, a unique experience in the College of Arts & Sciences and the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts. It allows talented students like Ogi Kwon opportunities to transition to WUSTL and arrive on campus five months after their peers without skipping a beat.

Sprint will deploy an enhanced in-building and campus cellular network that enables those with Sprint phones and mobile devices to have seamless voice and data connectivity throughout the Danforth Campus. Service from other cellular carriers, such as Verizon and AT&T, will not be disrupted or affected by the new Sprint network.

Graduate students from across Washington University gathered April 4 for the Graduate Professional Council’s (GPC) Bridging GAPS Awards Ceremony in Danforth University Center. The annual ceremony, organized by the GPC, is a recognition and celebration of the important role that graduate student leadership plays in enhancing interdisciplinary endeavors and the graduate student community.

It is perhaps a cliché that solving the environmental issues of the 21st century will require creativity, but the reverse is also true. For professionals in design or the visual and performing arts, the modern environmental movement is a source of both professional challenge and increasing opportunity. At 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 27, Washington University’s Edison Theatre and Office of Sustainability will host a panel colloquium on “Environmentalism and the Arts.”  

Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins may help clot-busting drugs treat strokes, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. “We’ve known that patients on statins have better stroke outcomes, but the data in this study suggest a new reason why: Statins may help improve blood flow to brain regions at risk of dying during ischemic stroke,” says senior author Jin-Moo Lee, MD, PhD, director of the cerebrovascular disease section in the Department of Neurology. The results appear online in the journal Stroke.

Evidence supporting the link between savings and college success is growing. Three studies out of the Center for Social Development (CSD) at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis offer a connection between assets and college enrollment and completion. “This research underscores the importance of policies and programs that help Americans of all income levels to save for college,” says Margaret Clancy, policy director and College Savings Initiative director at CSD. In a study forthcoming in the Journal of Children and Poverty, CSD researchers found that among youth who expected to graduate from a four-year college, those with a savings account in their name were approximately six times more likely to attend college than those with no account.  

Marshall Brown is an assistant professor at the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology, where he teaches architecture and urban design. He also was appointed the first Saarinen Architecture Fellow at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and is teaching with Architect in Residence William Massie during the 2010-11 school year. Brown earned a […]

Richard Brown is president of Handshouse Studio, Inc., an innovative non-profit organization dedicated to hands-on exploration of history, science, mathematics, literature, arts, culture, and technology. The group—which Brown co-founded in 1999 with his wife, Laura—works with students, educational institutions, and major media organizations to create exactingly researched and constructed replicas of historic structures. For example, […]

Rodney Henmi has devoted his architectural career to improving design quality in two often underserved building types: affordable housing and industrial architecture. Born and raised in St. Louis, Henmi earned his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Minnesota in 1975, then spent several years with Roger Johnson and Associates in Minneapolis and Onuma […]