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Media Advisory: Business of Sports program launches Oct. 13 at Washington University

With the support of a major gift, Washington University in St. Louis introduces new BSBA minor, The Business of Sports, in the Olin Business School.

Campus & Community

Two teams win inaugural Global Impact Award

Nanopore Diagnostics and ViFlex are the inaugural winners of the Suren G. Dutia and Jas K. Grewal Global Impact Award from the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Tom Cohen (right) and Nanopore are developing a test to better tailor antibiotics, and ViFlex is working on low-cost eyeglasses for developing countries.

Medicine & Health

Unusual skin cancer linked to chronic allergy from metal orthopedic implant

In rare cases, patients with allergies to metals such as nickel develop persistent skin rashes after metal devices are implanted near the skin. New research suggests these patients may be at increased risk of an unusual and aggressive form of skin cancer from the inflammatory cells and molecules that gather at the site.

Shirai, Bagaitkar receive research excellence awards

The annual Dr. Adel A. Yunis Awards for Research Excellence recognize outstanding postdoctoral fellows, house staff or students conducting basic research in molecular hematology. This year’s recipients are Cara Lunn Shirai, PhD, and Juhi Bagaitkar, PhD.

Business & Entrepreneurship

The dwindling stock of antibiotics, and what to do about it

Pharmaceutical companies have largely abandoned the business of discovering and developing antibiotics and our stock of these “miracle drugs” is beginning to shrink. Michael Kinch and his colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis are working to create new models for drug discovery that could replace the failed private enterprise model.

Campus & Community

Danforth Campus Wellness Fair Oct. 15

Danforth Campus employees are invited to attend the Wellness Fair on Wednesday, Oct. 15, in Bowles Plaza.

Humanities & Society

Center for Social Development receives $1 million Treasury grant for retirement savings research

The U.S. Treasury Department has awarded a $1.08 million research contract to the Center for Social Development at the Brown School of Washington University in St. Louis. One of 11 contracts awarded nationally under the Financial Empowerment Innovation Fund, this award will fund research on “My Retirement Accounts.”

Arts & Culture

Slideshow: Winning Sukkahs installed on campus

Architects from across the country converged on the Danforth Campus Oct. 6 and 7 to install “Sukkah City STL 2014: Between Absence and Presence.” The design competition challenged participants to reimagine the traditional Jewish Sukkah through the lens of contemporary art and architecture. On view through Oct. 12.

Campus & Community

Treatment study seeks African-Americans with asthma

Doctors at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are seeking African-Americans with asthma to participate in a new study evaluating treatment for this common breathing disorder.

Pakrasi receives grant for U.S.-India synthetic biology workshop

Himadri B. Pakrasi, PhD, received a $49,448 grant from the National Science Foundation to support the “Indo-U.S. Workshop on Synthetic and Systems Biology” being held this November in New Delhi. Pakrasi is the Myron and Sonya Glassberg/Albert and Blanche Greensfelder Distinguished University Professor and director of the International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES).