Stressbuster volunteers provide free backrubs to students, faculty and staff. The next Stressbusters event is the Stress-Free Zone, 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, at Olin Library. Volunteer Delia Chassaing says massage helps reduce stress, muscle tension and anxiety.
A 60-acre plot in Washington University in St. Louis’ Tyson Research Center has been named a Forest Global Earth Observatory, or ForestGEO. The oak-hickory forest in the rolling foothills of the Ozarks joins a network of 51 long-term forest study sites in 23 countries, including eight others in the United States. Together, the forests, containing roughly 8,500 species and 4.5 million individual trees, comprise the largest, systematically studied network of forest-ecology plots in the world.
Coffee or tea? One of founders of an emerging field that combines economics and brain science reports new insights into decisions in which two choices are equally appealing.
In the unlikely event that WUSTL alters the normal work and/or class schedule, an announcement will be posted on the university’s home page, and a number of media outlets also will air an announcement.
University College — the professional and continuing education division in Arts & Sciences — is hosting Preview Night for the spring 2014 semester at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12, in Holmes Lounge, Ridgley Hall, on the Danforth Campus. Doors open at 6 p.m.; a light dinner will be served.
The members of the Stereotypes, Washington University’s all-male a cappella ensemble, compete Friday, Dec. 6, for the title (and the tiara) of the Mr. Stereotype pageant. Music director and junior Kevin Vondrak talks about the group’s repertoire and new four-song EP.
For Amazon’s recently announced drone delivery system
to get off the ground, the company will have to solve numerous
difficult technological challenges. Chief among them will be increasing
battery life, getting the drones to work without a central command and
to “think” on their own, and determining what kind of navigation sensors
they will use. As complicated as those tasks may be, says a WUSTL robotics expert, they will be much more easily solved than the
seemingly more simple issues of regulation and insurance.
The hope was to repair a friendship. The result was a masterwork. On Dec. 9, the St. Louis Symphony’s Bjorn Ranheim and Shawn Weil will join the Washington University Symphony Orchestra for a performance of Johannes Brahms’ “Double Concerto in A for Violin and Cello.”
David M. Holtzman, MD, and Randall J. Bateman, MD, have been chosen as co-recipients of the Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Washington University in St. Louis.
