Siteman Cancer Center’s parent institutions have named two new leaders in radiation oncology. Dan Kinzel is executive director of radiation oncology at Washington University School of Medicine. Sharon Endicott is director of radiation oncology for Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
William Gillanders, MD, a physician-scientist and avid cyclist, keeps the wheels turning in the race against breast cancer. His career goal is to change treatment paradigms by making breast cancer vaccines a reality for those being treated for the disease.
Three seniors in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis have been chosen for the Society of Illustrators’ 2015 Student Scholarship Competition exhibition.
Little is known about how heterosexual men navigated dramatic changes in the legal regulation of families in the 1980s. A new paper by Deborah Dinner, JD, associate professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, provides the first legal history of the father’s rights movement, analyzing how middle-class white men responded to rising divorce rates by pursuing reform in both family law and welfare policy.
The outcome of a duel between mathematical models supports the reigning theory of the genetics of altruism. Called inclusive fitness, it says altruism is competitive if it benefits relatives carrying the same gene as the selfless individual. Attacked by a Nature article published in 2010, it is defended by Washington University evolutionary biologist David Queller.
Note: Jeff Smith’s talk has been canceled due to a weather-related travel delay. There are currently no plans to reschedule his presentation.
Jeff Smith, an urban policy professor and former Missouri state senator,
will discuss “Ferguson in Black and White” at 7 p.m. Monday, March 23,
in Anheuser-Busch Hall’s Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom at Washington University in St. Louis.
St. Louis native Gus Giordano, who died in 2008, is widely considered the father of jazz dance — at once founder, teacher, popularizer and finest exemplar. At 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 10 and 11, the company he founded, Giordano Dance Chicago, returns to its roots with two shows in Washington University’s Edison Theatre.
At the forefront of ancient DNA research is
evolutionary biologist and MacArthur Fellow Beth Shapiro, DPhil, who
will deliver the annual Ferguson Science Lecture at 5 p.m. Tuesday,
March 31, in Knight/Bauer Hall’s Emerson Auditorium. The program, free
and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the Woman’s Club of
Washington University.
Wilmetta Toliver-Diallo, PhD, assistant dean in Arts & Sciences, has been appointed by the Missouri Arts Council to serve on its advisory panel for festivals. Her term runs until June 30, 2016.
Finding kidney cancer early has been among the disease’s greatest challenges. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a noninvasive method to screen for kidney cancer that involves measuring the presence of proteins in the urine.
