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Medicine

Splints favored for kids’ forearm buckle fractures

When children fall and try to catch themselves with an outstretched hand, they can suffer “buckle fractures,” forearm injuries traditionally treated with casts. But new research shows that removable splints are cpreferred by patients and parents, building on earlier findings that such splints are just as effective as casts. Shown are study co-authors Kristine G. Williams, MD, holding a splint, and Janet D. Luhmann, MD.
Humanities & Society

From Yonahlossee to WUSTL — and back again

The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls, the debut novel of Anton DiSclafani, writer in residence in the Department of English in Arts & Sciences, is set for release June 4. The book is a result of a reported seven-figure publisher bidding war, which includes foreign rights in 12 countries, and finds itself on scores of “must-read” summer book lists.

Show your WUSTL Pride at PrideFest 2013

Washington University will be participating in this year’s St. Louis PrideFest, held June 29 –30 at Soldiers’ Memorial in Downtown St. Louis. All WUSTL faculty, staff, students and alumni are invited to be a part of the celebration by marching in the 2013 Pride STL LGBT Parade on June 30 at 11 a.m. For more information visit http://pridestl.org/. To participate in the parade with members of the WUSTL community contact Nate Lucena at nlucena@go.wustl.edu.
Campus & Community

High school students gets hands-on view of engineering

More than 30 local high school juniors and seniors were on campus June 6 for the third annual Explore Engineering day, sponsored by the School of Engineering & Applied Science. The community outreach event allows students to work with WUSTL engineering faculty and students and get hands-on experience in engineering projects to promote critical thinking.
Campus & Community

IS&T internship program a success, leader says

An internship program to encourage people of diverse backgrounds to work in technology was a success, and now leaders are working to carry it forward. Denise Hirschbeck, assistant vice chancellor of Information Services & Technology, said her department’s internship program showed that people without a previous background in technology could succeed if given the chance and appropriate training.
Humanities & Society

Brown School historic expansion begins

In 1934, Washington University in St. Louis constructed Brown Hall on its campus — the world’s first “bricks-and-mortar” building of a school of social work. Nearly 80 years later, the Brown School, an international leader in educating students in social work and public health, will take the next, necessary steps to ensure it remains a catalyst for change when site prep work begins on a two-year, $60 million expansion of its facilities. At the centerpiece is an innovative new building — east of Brown and Goldfarb Halls of approximately 105,000 square feet — for which site excavation will begin Wednesday, June 12.