The STL PREP (Perception, Reality, Engagement and Partnership) orientation series will launch with a welcome reception on Thursday, Oct. 3, from 5-7 p.m. at the Moonrise Hotel Rooftop, 6177 Delmar Blvd. Interested faculty and staff are welcome to bring up to two guests. Please RSVP by Sept. 20 here.
The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis has received a $36,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The grant will support a detailed conservation study of the 337 paintings in the museum’s permanent collection.
Phillip B. Williams, a student in the Master of Fine
Arts creative writing program at Washington University in St. Louis, is
one of five young poets awarded a $15,000 scholarship from the Poetry
Foundation and Poetry Magazine.
No student arrives at Washington University planning to
cheat. And yet, 15 to 40 academic integrity cases are adjudicated every
semester. A new video produced by the Office of Student Conduct explores the university’s academic integrity policy and why such a policy matters.
WUSTL community members can help the United Way
of Greater St. Louis support local organizations by contributing
to the university’s 2013 United Way campaign, which began Aug. 29 with a
kickoff breakfast at the Whittemore House. The university’s United Way campaign goal is $700,000 to support nearly 170 United Way of Greater St. Louis agencies.
Washington University in St. Louis once again has strong representation in the prestigious Fulbright program, with 12 current or recent students receiving Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarships to teach English or to conduct research abroad during the 2013-14 academic year. The students share their thoughts and plans, in their own words.
The Brown School’s Rebecca Gernes has been chosen as the only student among eight academic partners selected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the 2013-14 school year. Gernes, a native of Des Moines, Ia., is studying the relationship between air pollution and asthma in East St. Louis, Ill., and its surrounding areas – including the city of St. Louis.
Professor Susan Appleton, JD, in connection with her course at the School of Law, “Adoption & Assisted Reproduction,” will be hosting a film screening of Lost Sparrow with panel discussion immediately following at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 23, in Anheuser-Busch Hall, Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom.