The ziggurat drum. The nail violin. The gong array with artillery shells. The chariot of choir. If Mad Max and Dr. Seuss started a band, it might look something like Scrap Arts Music, which comes to Edison March 20 and 21. The Vancouver-based percussion ensemble builds wild, one-of-a-kind instruments from gleaming industrial salvage.
While many Americans took a big financial hit during the Great Recession, homeowners were less likely than renters to lose very large proportions of their wealth, finds a new study from Michal Grinstein-Weiss, PhD, associate director of the Center for Social Development in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
Evaluating military personnel with blast-related mild traumatic brain injuries, researchers have found that early symptoms of post-traumatic stress, such as anxiety, emotional numbness, flashbacks and irritability, are the strongest predictors of later disability. The study was led by the School of Medicine.
Washington University in St. Louis is sending 15 students to this year’s Clinton Global Initiative University, which begins Friday, March 6, at the University of Miami. Founded by the Clinton Global Initiative, an initiative
of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, CGI U supports
projects that advance five focus areas: education, environmental
sustainability, peace and human rights, poverty alleviation and public
health. The university hosted CGI U in 2013.
Solar panels are being installed on the rooftop of the building at 4488 Forest Park Ave. on the Medical Campus. The building houses the Washington University Knight Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Forest Park Pediatrics.
Ignacio Infante, PhD, assistant professor of comparative literature and of Spanish in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will have his article “Remaking Poetics after Postmodernism: Intertextuality, Intermediality and Cultural Circulation in the Wake of Borges” published in the winter 2015 issue of Comparative Literature (Duke University Press).
To highlight a few of the many African-Americans leading the way in science, a series of posters highlighting African-Americans in science and technology is being displayed on the Medical School and Danforth campuses from March 4-April 17.
The stigma surrounding people with severe mental illness in India leads to increased poverty among them, especially women, according to new research led by Jean-Francois Trani, PhD, assistant professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
