Cordells endow visiting professorship in School of Law
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Business schools in St. Louis, South Korea launch global finance program
Washington University in St. Louis and Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea are partnering to offer a unique learning experience to master the complex world of business by earning two degrees on two continents in their new Global Master of Finance Dual Degree program.
Medical Center and CORTEX traffic updates, webcam offered online
Washington University Medical Center and the CORTEX district just east of the Medical Campus are evolving daily. A webpage has been created to keep visitors, employees and residents informed about street-improvement projects and traffic flow in the area.Views from a live webcam showing the progress also are available via this link.
Virginia Terpening, rediscovered
Virginia Terpening was an accomplished painter and an important regional artist. Yet by the time of her death, in 2007, Terpening’s work had been largely forgotten; hundreds of paintings languished in a rusty trailer in northeastern Missouri. Yet now a reappraisal is underway, thanks in large part to The Hinge, a nonprofit gallery cofounded by Eileen G’Sell, lecturer in The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences.
Wash U Experts: Obama child and sick leave directive more inclusive for low-income families — including men
President Barack Obama signed a memorandum Jan. 15
directing agencies to allow federal workers to take six weeks of paid
sick leave to help with a new child or a sick relative. The
president also asked Congress to pass the Healthy Families Act, which
would grant Americans seven days a year of paid sick time. Augmenting
the Family and Medical Leave Act is one place Congress might
start if it wants to combat sex-role stereotypes and advance women’s
equal employment opportunity, as well as supporting families in times of
illness, say experts at Washington University in St. Louis.
A message from Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton
Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton shares with the WUSTL community some important developments in the university’s continuing efforts to create more socioeconomic diversity within our talented student body.
Washington University celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day
The 27th annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration at Washington University in St. Louis will include a number of events on campus, all free and open to the public. Michel Martin, host of Tell Me More, National Public Radio’s one-hour daily news and talk show, will deliver the School of Medicine’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Lecture Monday, Jan. 20.
Widespread flu activity seen in St. Louis region
The St. Louis region is experiencing widespread flu activity with some deaths, but Washington University physicians say it’s not too late to get a flu shot. The deaths primarily were of otherwise healthy young and middle-aged adults not vaccinated against influenza.
Brain regions ‘tune’ activity to enable attention
The brain appears to synchronize the activity of different brain regions to make it possible for a person to pay attention or concentrate on a task, scientists at the School of Medicine have learned. Pictured is the study’s first author, graduate student researcher Amy Daitch.
Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls — the region’s first all-girls STEM charter school — scheduled to open Aug. 2015
Washington University in St. Louis has announced that it will serve as the institutional sponsor for Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls (hawthornschool.org), the first single-sex STEM charter school in St. Louis.