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IDEA Labs Demo Day April 18

IDEA Labs will host its second annual Demo Day April 18. Medical and engineering students from the Medical and Danforth campuses will demonstrate prototypes for inventions they created to solve a variety of health-care problems.

Humanities & Society

Helen Fisher explains everything you want to know about love and aren’t afraid to ask for Assembly Series

Why are we driven to love, and how do we choose whom to love? Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher, PhD, has been asking such questions for decades. She will discuss love for the Assembly Series at 5 p.m. Friday, April 4, in Louderman Hall.

Grants awarded for diversity and inclusion projects

Diversity and Inclusion Grants totaling nearly $112,000 were awarded to 10 projects designed to strengthen and promote diversity on campus.

Medicine & Health

Carpenter helped develop guidelines to improve older adult care in emergency departments

Chris Carpenter, MD, associate professor of emergency medicine, co-chaired the national Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines Task Force, which created new recommendations intended to improve the care for older adults in emergency departments.

Medicine & Health

Journal honors breast cancer researcher

The Journal of Biological Chemistry has recognized School of Medicine researcher Ron Bose, MD, PhD, and his colleagues for work describing the combined structure of two proteins that, when bound together, drive growth of many breast cancers.

Humanities & Society

Serving others during spring break

For some, spring break is all about relaxing. But some WUSTL students instead traveled across the globe treating patients, planting trees and digging trenches.

Washington University hires Title IX coordinator

To promote and strengthen a culture that proactively supports a safe and respectful learning, working and living environment, Washington University in St. Louis has appointed Jessica W. Kennedy, JD, to the newly created role of Title IX coordinator, according to Lorraine Goffe-Rush, vice chancellor for human resources, and Sharon Stahl, vice chancellor for students. The appointment took effect March 17.

Humanities & Society

Five students, five continents, one fascinating blog

Five friends and WUSTL students document their studies and travels abroad — on five continents — through stories and photographs.

Medicine & Health

Medical students learn their futures on Match Day

Fourth-year medical students learned Friday, March 21, where they will go for residency training, the next stage of their careers. The annual event also brought a marriage proposal for one student, to the delight of students gathered for Match Day. Shown is student Jacqueline Chen upon learning she will go to Barnes-Jewish Hospital to focus on internal medicine for her residency.

Medicine & Health

New clue to autism found inside brain cells

Researchers at the School of Medicine have learned that the problems people with autism have with memory formation, higher-level thinking and social interactions may be partially attributable to the activity of a receptor inside brain cells, highlighted with green in this image.