The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts have selected the collaborative firm Freecell Architecture as winner of PXSTL. The $50,000 urban design competition winner will create a temporary space for outdoor performances in Grand Center beginning in spring 2014.
Deeply concerned about an “innovation deficit” that is threatening the nation’s economic growth, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and Timothy M. Wolfe, president of the University of Missouri System, sent a joint letter last month to Missouri’s U.S. congressional delegation urging their support in helping close this innovation gap. Wrighton and Wolfe also joined more than 160 university presidents and chancellors in signing an open letter July 31 to President Obama and the U.S. Congress asking them to restore federal investments in higher education and research.
Fuzhong Zhang, PhD, assistant professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering, has received a Young Faculty Award from the
Defense Advanced Research Project Agency of the U.S. Department of
Defense. He is the first faculty member at Washington University
in St. Louis to receive the award, which recognizes an elite group of
scientists early in their careers at research universities.
The mix of microbes living inside the gut can protect against obesity, but a healthy diet is critical, according to School of Medicine scientists who transplanted intestinal microbes from obese and lean twins into mice and fed the animals different diets. Pictured are researchers Vanessa Ridaura, a graduate student, and Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, director of the Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology.
Growing up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) was drawn to the itinerant musicians known as chorões, whose improvised concerts filled the streets and cafes. On Sept. 16, the Danforth University Center will launch its fall Chamber Music Series with Villa-Lobos’ Choros No. 2, as well as works by Emmanuel, Debussy, Schmitt and Saint-Saëns.
At Washington University in St. Louis, students in the School of
Engineering & Applied Science learn more than how to be an engineer.
With opportunities to go abroad to get hands-on experience beyond what
they learn in the classroom, they also learn to be leaders in a global
society. Sixteen WUSTL students went to Brisbane, Australia, for the International Experience program, sponsored
by the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering
and the McDonnell Global Energy and Environment Partnership (MAGEEP).
To read the joint letter that WUSTL Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton and Timothy M. Wolfe, president of the University of Missouri System, sent last month to the 10 members of Missouri’s congressional delegation, including U.S. Rep. William L. Clay, urging their support in helping close the innovation gap, visit here.
By blending their expertise, two materials science
engineers at Washington University in St. Louis changed the electronic
properties of new class of materials — just by exposing it to light.
The Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University’s School of Law will host the International Law Weekend – Midwest Regional conference Sept. 19-21. The theme for this year’s conference
is “The Legal Challenges of Globalization: A View from the Heartland”
and the panels presented at this conference will address a broad range
of topics, emphasizing the impact of international law and globalization
on the Midwest.
