Student Anastasia Sorokina lived in Japan as a small child and always wanted to return. Next year, she’ll get the chance, after being awarded a Boren scholarship. Sorokina just completed her sophomore year at Washington University in St. Louis, where she is double-majoring in comparative arts and international studies, both in Arts & Sciences. Boren scholarships allow U.S. students to study abroad in parts of the world critical to U.S. interests.
The National Federation of Independent Business Young Entrepreneur Foundation awarded budding business owner Shea Gouldd its highest honor, naming her the 2013 Young Entrepreneur of the Year at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. As the winner of YEF’s top prize, Gouldd, who resides in Boynton Beach, Fla., will receive a $10,000 educational scholarship to attend WUSTL this fall, where she will study business at Olin Business School.
Researchers have identified a way to trigger reproduction in the
laboratory of clusters of human cells that make insulin, potentially
removing a significant obstacle to transplanting the cells as a treatment for patients with type 1 diabetes. Pictured in blue are the cells and in green, the insulin.
States that want to reduce rates of adult smoking may consider implementing stringent tobacco restrictions on teens. Washington University researchers discovered that states with more restrictive limits on teens purchasing tobacco also have lower adult smoking rates, especially among women.
In the Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics
decision, the Supreme Court unanimously held that naturally occurring
DNA sequences are “products of nature” and therefore cannot be patented.
“The Court’s holding represents a significant shift form the status quo,” says Kevin Emerson Collins, JD, patent law expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. “It reverses both the lower court and twenty years of precedent at the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Join Joel Minor, curator of the Modern Literature
Collection/Manuscripts, for a guided tour of the exhibition William H.
Gass: The Soul Inside the Sentence on Thursday, June 20, at 4 p.m. or on
Friday, July 19, at 9 a.m. in Olin Library.
The School of Medicine’s Susan E. Mackinnon, MD, has received the 2013 Jacobson Innovation Award of the American College of Surgeons for her leadership in the innovative use of nerve-transfer procedures in the treatment of patients with devastating peripheral nerve injuries. Pictured is Mackinnon after receiving the award from A. Brent Eastman, MD, ACS president.
Scientists at the School of Medicine have measured a significant and potentially pivotal
difference between the brains of patients with an inherited form of
Alzheimer’s disease and healthy family members who do not carry the
mutation. Randall Bateman, MD, is the study’s senior author.
Melissa Hopkins has been named assistant vice chancellor and assistant dean of facilities operations at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The appointment is effective Aug. 19.
L. Michael Brunt, MD, professor of surgery in minimally invasive surgery at the School of Medicine, received a 2013 Philip J. Wolfson Outstanding Teacher Award at the annual meeting of the Association for Surgical Education, held April 25-27 in Orlando, Fla.
