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Campus & Community

Reunion at the Great Wall

Three Washington Univesity alumni — Fred Tsai, BSBA ’00; Michael Ch’ang, BSBA ’00; and Mark Yen, AB ’99 — visited the Great Wall of China last summer.
Science & Technology

Successful dry run for the 2020 Mars Mission

In June, a rover named Zoe set out into the Atacama Desert on the west coast of South America to test a suite of instruments intended for future missions to Mars under Mars-like conditions. One of the instruments aboard Zoe was a Raman spectrometer designed by a team led by Alian Wang of Washington University in St. Louis. A fragile lab instrument that was ruggidized to survive the desert, the Raman spectrometer is expected to fly on the 2020 Mars mission.
Arts & Culture

Erica Kochi of UNICEF Innovation Unit Aug. 29

As co-founder of the UNICEF Innovation Unit, Erica Kochi — one of Time magazine’s 100 “World’s Most Influential People” — leverages design and technology to solve some of the world’s most intractable problems. On Thursday, Aug. 29, Kochi will launch the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts fall Public Lecture Series with a free talk in Steinberg Hall.

Washington People: Rick Larsen

Rick Larsen, WUSTL’s head athletic trainer, discusses injuries, The Game of Their Lives and 30 years on campus.
Humanities & Society

Administrative law expert Levin testifies before congressional committee

Administrative law expert Ronald M. Levin, JD, recently was invited to testify before Congress on concerns about the proposed Regulatory Accountability Act. Levin, the William R. Orthwein Distinguished Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, has taught and written about administrative law for more than 30 years. The U.S. House Judiciary Committee endorsed the legislation on July 24, sending it to the full House.
Medicine & Health

Obesity doesn’t reduce chance of getting pregnant with donor eggs

Obese women who use donor eggs to become pregnant through in vitro fertilization are just as likely to become pregnant as normal weight women, according to a new report. Pictured is the study’s first author, Emily Jungheim, MD, left, observing as Mary Bade uses assisted reproductive technology to inject a single sperm into an egg.
Science & Technology

Social amoebae travel with a posse

Some social amoebae farm the bacteria they eat. Now a collaboration of scientists at Washington University in St. Louis and Harvard University has taken a closer look at one lineage, or clone, of  D. discoideum farmer. This farmer carries not one but two strains of bacteria. One strain is the “seed corn” for a crop of edible bacteria, and the other strain is a weapon that produces defensive chemicals. The edible bacteria, the scientists found, evolved from the toxic one.
Science & Technology

Energy efficiency analysis goes high-tech in I-CARES project

A team of researchers, led by Arye Nehorai, PhD, the Eugene and Martha Lohman Professor of Electrical Engineering and chair of the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering, has received a one-year grant from Washington University’s International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy & Sustainability (I-CARES) to take an interdisciplinary, “human-centered” approach to making buildings more energy efficient.