The Friday, Dec. 5, meeting of the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees focused on the university’s role in addressing current challenges, both local and global, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.
Smart writing on timely topics for the widest possible audience. This is the mission of The Common Reader, a new journal launched this fall by Gerald Early. Early and Managing Editor Ben Fulton discuss The Common Reader, online journalism and the continuing value of ink and paper.
Anesthesiology researchers Robert Gereau, PhD, (left) and Michael Bruchas, PhD, (right) have received one of only 11 DECODE (Deciphering Circuit Basis of Disease) grants to be awarded. The awards were announced at a ceremony featuring Thomas Insel, MD, (center) director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
Rare objects from the University Libraries Department of Special Collections are featured in “Into the Vault,” a new video series produced by Arts & Sciences in collaboration with University Libraries and hosted by Seth Graebner, PhD, associate professor of French in Arts & Sciences. Among them are Galileo’s “Dialogue,” Denis Diderot’s
“Encyclopédie,” Charles Darwin’s “The Various Contrivances by which
British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects” and a 1678 letter
from Isaac Newton to natural philosopher Robert Hooke.
Samuel A. Wickline, MD, has been chosen to receive the Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Washington University in St. Louis. He will receive the honor Saturday, Dec. 6. Faculty achievement awards will be presented to David A. Balota, PhD, and Steven L. Teitelbaum, MD.
Genetic mutations may cause more cases of amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis (ALS) than scientists previously had realized, according
to researchers. Shown are study authors Janet Cady, a PhD candidate, and Matthew Harms, MD, assistant professor of neurology at the School of Medicine.
A team of biomedical engineers in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis, led by Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has developed the world’s fastest receive-only 2-D camera, a device that can capture events up to 100 billion frames per second.
Christopher “Kit” Wellman, PhD, chair of the Department of Philosophy, has won the 2015 Berger Memorial Prize, awarded to an outstanding published article in philosophy of law.
Former U.S. senators John C. Danforth and Joe Lieberman
will discuss “The Role of Religion in America’s Broken Politics” at
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, in Graham Chapel at Washington University in
St. Louis. The event is sponsored by the John C. Danforth Center on Religion
and Politics as part of the Danforth Distinguished Lecture Series and is free and open to the public.
Daniel Giammar, PhD, has been named the Walter E. Browne Professor in Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis. He was installed Dec. 1.
