OUTgrads, the universitywide group for LGBTQ graduate and professional students at Washington University, is hosting a mixer for LGBTQ graduate students, faculty and staff from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, in the second floor hearth area of the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center at the School of Medicine.
The Spotlight on Women in Medicine and Science will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, on the Washington University Medical Center campus.
Created 60 years ago, the Assembly Series is Washington University’s premiere lecture series. Its chief mission is to present interesting and important voices, and it is designed to spark meaningful discussion and lead to greater understanding of our world today. Assembly Series programs are free and open to the public. The fall 2013 schedule, below, opens with First Year Reading Program author Eula Biss on September 9.
The newly renovated Whispers Café introduced frozen yogurt. Other new dining options include a sushi happy hour at Ibby’s, gyros at Ursa’s and Asian street food at the Bear’s Den.
Luis Sanchez, MD, the Gregorio A. Sicard Distinguished Professor of Vascular Surgery and chief of the section of vascular surgery at the School of Medicine, discusses his work and how his family history influenced him toward medicine.
There’s now a simple way to be sure your office is prepared in case of an emergency. Washington University in St. Louis Emergency Management officials announced that managers across campus can order standard emergency preparedness kits for their offices.
About 1,600 freshmen moved onto the WUSTL campus last week to begin their college careers. Upperclass student volunteers (seen here, at a pep rally) help newcomers get settled and adjust to their first year of college life. Classes begin Tuesday, Aug. 27. Check out more photos, videos and other moments from the first day’s events.
As encrypted email services like Lavabit shut their
doors, the importance of email privacy becomes even more clear writes
Neil Richards, JD, privacy law expert and professor of law at Washington
University in St. Louis, in a recent CNN opinion piece.
Much of modern agriculture relies on biologically
available nitrogenous compounds (called “fixed” nitrogen) made by an
industrial process developed by German chemist Fritz Haber in 1909. Himadri Pakrasi, PhD, a scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, thinks it should be possible to design a better
nitrogen-fixing system. His idea is to put the apparatus for fixing
nitrogen in plant cells, the same cells that hold the apparatus for
capturing the energy in sunlight. The National Science Foundation just awarded Pakrasi and his team $3.87 million to explore this idea further.
School of Medicine
scientists have found a way that corrupted, disease-causing proteins
spread in the brain, potentially contributing to Alzheimer’s disease,
Parkinson’s disease and other brain-damaging disorders. Pictured are clumps of corrupted tau protein outside a nerve cell, as seen through an electron micrograph.
