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The View From Here 10.5.15

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Neurosurgical training in Ireland fosters personal, professional growth

Through an elective rotation that began nearly 15 years ago, neurosurgery residents at the School of Medicine have an opportunity to see how complex neurosurgical procedures are performed in another country with a markedly different health-care system.

Washington People: Amy Suelzer

Amy Suelzer, PhD, director of Overseas Programs in Arts & Sciences, came to Washington University in St. Louis for graduate studies in 1990, and stayed. Today, she helps guide students through the myriad study abroad programs, hoping they have the life-changing experience she did.

Corbetta to receive neurorehabilitation honor

Maurizio Corbetta, MD, an internationally recognized neuroscientist and clinician at the School of Medicine, will receive the 2015 Outstanding Neurorehabilitation Clinician Scientist (ONCS) Award. The American Society of Neurorehabilitation (ASNR) Education Foundation Board selected Corbetta for the honor.

Arts & Culture

PAD tackles love, marriage and ‘Company’

Voice messages sound in a lonely apartment. Robert is turning 35. “Happy birthday,” intone his friends. “You don’t look it.” Stephen Sondheim’s “Company” examines the nature of marriage and commitment through eyes of an aging lothario — the last dangerously unattached member of his social circle.

Flags lowered to half-staff in memory of Oregon shooting victims

The U.S. and Washington University flags over Brookings Hall will be lowered to half-staff from the morning of Monday, Oct. 5, until sunset, Tuesday, Oct. 6, as a mark of respect for those killed in the Oct. 1 shooting at the Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore.

Campus & Community

Obituary: Lisa Simone, 25, doctoral student in physical therapy

Lisa Cristine Simone, 25, a doctoral candidate in the Program in Physical Therapy at Washington University School of Medicine, died unexpectedly Sept. 29, 2015, in St. Louis.

Campus & Community

A plan to transform east end of Danforth Campus

In 2017, Washington University in St. Louis will begin one of the most significant capital projects in the recent history of the Danforth Campus: transformation of the east end.

Campus & Community

$10 million gift for scholarships from Andrew and Barbara Taylor lifts campaign to $2 billion

St. Louis philanthropists Andrew and Barbara Taylor have committed $10 million to support scholarships for undergraduate students at Washington University in St. Louis, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced. The Taylors’ gift brings the total raised to date for Leading Together: The Campaign for Washington University to $2 billion.

Campus & Community

Trustees meet, hear reports on endowment and major plans for the east end of campus

At its fall meeting Thursday and Friday, Oct. 1 and 2, the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees heard special reports on the university’s endowment and the plan to transform the east end of the Danforth Campus. The board also received a report from Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton that included updates on administrative appointments, admissions, athletics and construction.