The Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences (PACS) at the School of Medicine has received a five-year, $1.18 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to prepare graduate-level teachers of children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Washington University in St. Louis is launching a new pre-college program designed to help talented but underserved St. Louis high school students prepare for and complete a college education at a selective four-year college or university. Pictured is Leah Merrifield, who will head the program.
Breast cancer that spreads to other organs is extremely difficult to treat. Doctors can buy patients time, but a cure remains elusive. Now, researchers at the School of Medicine have shown that human breast tumors transplanted into mice are excellent models of metastatic cancer and could be valuable tools in the search for better treatments. Shown are human breast cancer cells (red) growing amid mouse cells (green).
Washington University’s Alumni & Development will host its annual fall festival Saturday, Sept. 28, beginning at 11 a.m. at the Danforth University Center. A barbecue lunch and children’s activities will take place until 1 p.m., when the Bears football game begins.
The Saint Louis Art Museum and the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis have announced that the Los Angeles-based artist Won Ju Lim and the Brooklyn-based artist Mariam Ghani will serve as Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellows for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 academics year, respectively.
Some 30 Washington University in St. Louis graduates joined Teach for America this year. They are serving high-need students in urban and rural classrooms across America. Teach for America reports that WUSTL consistently has ranked high among mid-sized colleges and universities
that contribute students. This year, WUSTL is No. 12.
Inkstand is a writing workshop for people who serve (e.g., volunteers, veterans, public service professionals, etc.) and wish to reflect on their experiences through writing. Sponsored by the Gephardt Institute for Public Service, the workshop’s leaders are now recruiting for the session that begins Oct. 8. The deadline to register is Sept. 30.
Andrew Brimer and Abigail Cohen, May graduates from the
School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in
St. Louis and co-founders of the med-tech startup Sparo Labs, have won
the $150,000 CIMIT Student Technology Prize for Primary Care, bringing
their total competition winnings to more than $275,000.
My Name Is Strong, a Clinton Global Initiative project, hosts an art exhibit Friday, Sept. 20 at Union Avenue Church. Some 45 works, including this piece(left) by Brown School student Kyle Brandt-Lubart, explore the issue of gender-based violence and celebrate the strength of its survivors.
More than 1,000 science researchers from around the world descended upon St.
Louis during the second week of August for what Provost Holden Thorp,
PhD, wittingly referred to as “Photo-palooza” for the gathering’s focus on photosynthesis research.
Washington University’s International Center for Advanced Renewable
Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES) served as host to the 11th Workshop
on Cyanobacteria and the Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC)
hosted the Light Harvesting Satellite Meeting 2013.
