Faculty and graduate students from St. Louis-area universities with an interest in labor, households, health care, law and social welfare are invited to take part in the continuing series of Monday brown-bag luncheon seminars held biweekly on the Danforth Campus beginning Monday, Sept. 9, and running through Dec. 2. All lectures take place at noon in Seigle Hall, Room 348. The series begins with a lecture by
Derek Neal, PhD, professor in economics at the University of Chicago titled “Designing Accountability Systems and Incentives Schemes
for Educators.”
The next of four university-wide blood drives this academic year will be held Wednesday, Nov. 6, at eight locations throughout Washington University in St. Louis. To donate blood, sign up online here.
Rob Reich, PhD, associate professor of political science at Stanford University, has been named the 2013-14 Wells Fargo Advisors Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship by the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. An expert on political theory, he will make four visits to WUSTL over the course of the 2013-14 academic year.
Some 1,100 Washington University freshmen will paint murals, pull weeds and organize classrooms Saturday, Aug. 31, at 13 local schools for Service First, one of the university’s largest community service projects.
Mahendra R. Gupta, PhD, dean of Olin Business School
and the Geraldine J. and Robert L. Virgil Professor of Accounting and
Management, serves a burger to a student during the 19th annual Olin
Cookout Aug. 27 at Simon Hall. The tasty tradition brings the Olin
community together, with faculty and staff serving barbecued chicken,
pork and hamburgers to hungry students.
The Record recently learned of the death of Michael A. Weinberg, PhD, a former associate professor of history in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Weinberg died of heart disease April 23, 2013, at his home in Belfast, Maine. He was 83.
Washington University Orthopedics is opening a walk-in clinic for joggers, cyclists, high school athletes and weekend warriors who are injured outside of business hours.
Washington University in St. Louis is launching a
new Climate Change Initiative aimed at expanding scientific
research, education and public understanding of global climate change. A
signature initiative of the International Center for Advanced Renewable
Energy and Sustainability, the initiative will be led by Peter
H. Raven, PhD, the George Engelmann Professor of Botany Emeritus and President
Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Richard M. Kurtz, PhD, associate professor emeritus of psychology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died unexpectedly of cardiac arrest on Monday, Aug. 26, 2013. He was 76 and residing in Cincinnati.
Bernard Becker, MD, professor emeritus of ophthalmology and visual sciences at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died Wednesday Aug. 28, 2013, after a long illness. He was 93.
