Nominations are now open for the Gephardt Institute for Public Service’s Civic Scholars Program. The program now consists of both a classic and a study abroad cohort. Faculty, staff and administrators can nominate sophomores for either group here. The nomination deadline is Dec. 2.
Religion & Politics, the online news journal of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics at Washington University in St. Louis, won the Gerald A. Renner Enterprise Religion Report of the Year Award at the Religion Newswriters Association’s annual awards ceremony in Austin, Texas.
This holiday season, the Washington University in St. Louis community can bring burned-out or unwanted light strings to campus to be recycled. WUSTL’s Office of Sustainability and the Sustainability Action Team at the School of Medicine are partnering with StLouisGreen.com and Operation Food Search on the initiative, which runs Nov. 16-Jan. 12.
Is privacy a “right”? What are we willing to sacrifice for privacy? How consistent are our beliefs about privacy and how consistently do we “practice” it? In response to these types of questions, Washington University in St. Louis experts on privacy issues, ranging from the history of privacy to privacy law, will participate in a roundtable discussion, titled “Privacy and Surveillance,” from noon to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, in Anheuser-Busch Hall, Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom.
Some 10 boxes, weighing over 100 pounds and
carrying everything from breakfast bars, coffee, air fresheners, hand
sanitizers, trail mix and home-baked goods, are on
their way to U.S. troops in Afghanistan, thanks to Washington
University’s Military Care Package group. With the November mailing, the group reached another milestone. Since 2004, WUSTL staff, students, faculty and
administrators have donated, packaged and shipped more than eight tons of supplies to troops serving in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
The 21st century is bringing challenges to urban areas like never before, as if A Tale of Two Cities is being played out over and over again, in your neighborhood and in cities all over the world. The problems are both local and global, and so are the solutions. It’s this context that has led three Washington University in St. Louis faculty to compile an impressive array of international scholarship in a two-volume book titled Urban Ills: Twenty-first-Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts.
Lee Ratner, MD, PhD, has been named the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Oncology at the School of Medicine. Shown here with Larry J. Shapiro, MD, dean of the School of Medicine, Ratner (right) is an oncologist and noted authority on retroviruses.
School of Medicine researchers have identified a chain reaction that triggers the
regrowth of some damaged nerve cell branches, a discovery that one day may help improve treatments for nerve injuries that can cause loss of sensation or paralysis. To study how nerve cells respond to injuries in their branches, researcher Valeria Cavalli grows them in “spots,” like the one pictured.
Daniel E. Feder, JD, has been named managing director of private markets at Washington University Investment Management Co. (WUIMC) — the investment office for the endowment at Washington University in St. Louis. As a senior member of the WUIMC, Feder will play a key role in the overall management of WUSTL’s endowment and other university assets, which were valued at $6.2 billion at the end of the 2013 fiscal year. His appointment is effective Dec. 2.
