The International Society of Photosynthesis
Research, meeting this August in St. Louis, is offering an afternoon of
talks and demonstrations about the original “green” chemistry invented
by bacteria and plants and its relevance to our energy future. Intended for teachers, students and the public, “Photosynthesis in
our Lives” will take place from 3- 5 p.m. the afternoon of Sunday,
August 11, 2013 in the Parkview room at the Hyatt Regency at the Arch. RSVP to: http://parc.wustl.edu/outreachRSVP by August 7, 2013.
Missouri has been held out as a model for juvenile
corrections programs, but the court system that puts young people into
these programs is in crisis, finds a recent report by the National
Juvenile Defender Center (NJDC). “Many young people in Missouri
wind up having to defend themselves in our juvenile courts – and
sometimes from behind bars,” says Mae C. Quinn, JD, professor of law and
co-director of the Civil Justice Clinic at Washington University in St.
Louis.
University College, the adult, evening and continuing education division in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has developed three new degree programs, including a master’s in statistics that is the only one offered in the St. Louis area. The other two new programs are a bachelor’s in communications and a bachelor’s in journalism. University College will offer the new programs this fall semester, which begins Aug. 27.
Washington University in St. Louis chemist D. André
d’Avignon, who manages the university’s high-resolution nuclear magnetic
resonance facility, has been named the winner of the 2013 Saint Louis
Award. The Saint Louis Award, administered by the St. Louis section of the American Chemical
Society, is given to an individual who has made outstanding
contributions to the profession of chemistry and demonstrated the potential
to further the advancement of the chemical profession.
Bear Necessities is offering a summer sale for WUSTL staff and faculty Aug. 2-4. Save on sales tax during tax-free weekend and buy one sale item and get one free.
Alison K. Snyder-Warwick, MD, assistant professor of
surgery in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, was installed in
June as secretary of the Sir Charles Bell Society at the International Facial Nerve Symposium in Boston.
Bee populations are declining worldwide. But recently, students in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts worked with PAUSE, a multinational group of scientists, gardeners and beekeepers, to design pollinator-friendly sculpture in St. Louis’ Florissant Community Garden.
Spotify. Pandora. iTunes. YouTube. We are constantly bombarded with a seemingly limitless amount of new music in our daily lives. But why do we keep coming back to that one song or album we couldn’t get enough of in college? New
research from Washington University’s Olin Business School shows that
although consumers say they prefer to listen to unfamiliar music, their
choices actually belie that preference.
Automatic federal budget cuts, known as the sequester,
which began March 1, have had minimal impact on federal regulatory
agencies, finds a new report on the U.S. budget for this fiscal year and next. The on-budget cost of regulation is detailed in a new report, Sequester’s Impact on Regulatory Agencies Modest: An Analysis of the U.S. Budget for Fiscal Years 2013 and 2014, published by Washington University in St. Louis and George Washington University.
