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Blood cancer researchers honored

Three blood cancer researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will receive the 2016 American Society of Hematology Scholar Award.

International medical coverage now available

The university now offers international medical coverage through GeoBlue to benefits-eligible faculty, staff, clinical fellows and postdoctoral researchers traveling abroad for university business. The university also reminds all to record such plans on the International Travel Registry.

Kemper seeks new Teaching Gallery proposals

The Kemper Art Museum is now accepting Teaching Gallery proposals for spring 2017. The deadline for proposals is May 31. The Teaching Gallery is an exhibition space dedicated to exhibiting works from the museum’s collection with connections to university curricula.

ISP joins national network to increase STEM teaching force

The Institute for School Partnership at Washington University in St. Louis has been accepted as a partner for 100Kin10, a 10-year national coordinated effort to train and retain 100,000 excellent science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) teachers in schools by 2021.
Campus & Community

Getting to know Maria Hinojosa

Award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa will be the keynote speaker at the campus-wide Day of Discovery & Dialogue, to be held Feb. 24-25 at Washington University. Her talk, titled “Inclusion: Finding New Ways of Thinking, Inspiring Action,” will take place at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, in the Eric P. Newman Education Center on the Medical Campus.
Campus & Community

Women in STEM Day: Busting the ‘bro code’

Girls participate in engineering activity
Scientists solve the world’s greatest challenges and are paid well to do so. Yet the gender gap persists in engineering, computer science and other fields. Women in STEM Day at Washington University in St. Louis welcomes high school girls into the community of female scientists and introduces them to cutting-edge research. Hosted by undergraduate female science students, the event features demonstrations, top speakers and a sleepover.
Arts & Culture

Shattering Western mythology

Julian Rosefeldt, “American Night” (2009).
Tumbleweeds drift past clapboard buildings. A lone rider crosses dusty mountains. A woman waits by a cabin door. In “American Night” (2009), which opens March 4 at the Kemper Art Museum, German artist Julian Rosefeldt turns an amused yet critical eye to the motifs and conventions of the Western film.