A Q&A with planetary scientist Bill McKinnon
Bill McKinnon, PhD, professor of earth and planetary
sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, lists as his top research
interests the icy satellites of the outer solar system and the physics of
impact cratering. But he isn’t picky. If anything unusual and exciting is going
on anywhere in the solar system, he wants to know about it.
Carpenter helped develop guidelines to improve older adult care in emergency departments
Chris Carpenter, MD, associate professor of emergency medicine, co-chaired the national Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines Task Force, which created new recommendations intended to improve the care for older adults in emergency departments.
IDEA Labs Demo Day April 18
IDEA Labs will host its second annual Demo Day April 18. Medical and engineering students from the Medical and Danforth campuses will demonstrate prototypes for inventions they created to solve a variety of health-care problems.
10th annual postdoc symposium April 3
The 10th Annual Washington University Postdoc Scientific Symposium will be held Thursday, April 3, to recognize and showcase the important contributions of postdocs to scientific enterprise at the university. Registration is open through March 27.
Obituary: Murray Weidenbaum, noted economist, professor, presidential adviser, 87
Murray Weidenbaum, PhD, the Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences and honorary chairman of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy, died Thursday, March 20, 2014, in St. Louis. He was 87.
Pow Wow takes place April 5
The 24th annual Pow Wow, a festival of American Indian cultures at Washington University in St. Louis, will be held Saturday, April 5, in the Field House on the Danforth Campus. The event, hosted by the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies at the Brown School, is free and open to the public.
Colditz to be honored for cancer prevention efforts
Graham Colditz, MD, DrPH, a disease-prevention expert at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, will receive the 2014 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)–American Cancer Society Award.
Washington People: Gammon Earhart
Gammon Earhart, PhD, a professor in the Program in Physical Therapy at the School of Medicine, works to restore movement to patients with Parkinson’s disease. Arguably her most significant contributions as a researcher have been her studies demonstrating the
benefits of tango dancing on patients with Parkinson’s. Freedom of movement, it turns out, has become a theme of sorts for Earhart — professionally and personally.
‘Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights’ chosen as 2014 First Year Reading Program selection
Part memoir, part legal analysis, the First Year Reading Program book “Covering” explores how we all “cover” to fit into the American mainstream.
Emergency communication system to be tested March 19
Washington University in St. Louis will test its emergency communication system, WUSTLAlerts, at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 19. The test will take place unless there is the potential for severe weather that day or some other emergency is occurring at that time.
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