Researchers at the School of Medicine want to know whether they can reduce the rate of unintended pregnancies at community clinics by providing contraceptive counseling that emphasizes the benefits of long-acting birth control, like IUDs and implants, and by making these methods available to women at sharply reduced costs or free of charge. Pictured is Tessa Madden, MD, the study’s principal investigator.
Staff are invited to join a small group discussion of the critically acclaimed essay collection, Notes from No Man’s Land, by Eula Biss. The book, a provocative exploration of race and identity, is this year’s selection for the First Year Reading Program.
The Civic Engagement Fund supports civic engagement and
community service projects throughout the year. Undergraduate,
graduate, professional students, alums, faculty and staff are eligible
to apply. Grants are available for both individuals and groups.
Applications are due Aug. 2.
What can behavioral economics teach us about how to launch a successful startup? Barton
Hamilton, PhD, professor of entrepreneurship at Washington University
in St. Louis’ Olin Business School, will present “Nudging
Entrepreneurship” at 8 a.m. Tuesday, July 16 at Rubin Brown on 16th
Street in Denver.
Mark Anastasio, PhD, has been named interim chair of
the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering
& Applied Science effective July 15. Anastasio, professor of
biomedical engineering, succeeds Frank Yin, MD, PhD, the Stephen F. and
Camilla T. Brauer Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, who
stepped down as chair in May after leading the department for more than 15 years.
Thanks to a grant from the St. Louis-based Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation, 21 physician scientist trainees in two clinical departments at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis will receive research support. Pictured is Oliver Langenberg, who led the foundation for more than 50 years before his death last year and after whom the physician scientist training programs in the departments of Medicine and Pediatrics have been renamed.
Ronald Evens, MD, professor of radiology at the School
of Medicine and of medical economics at the Olin Business School, has
been appointed chairman of the Board of Regents for the National Library
of Medicine.
On their recent album You’re Everything, jazz vocalist Feyza Eren and drummer Steve Davis swing through a range of jazz and pop standards. On July 11, the pair will launch WUSTL’s Jazz in July series with a free concert in Holmes Lounge.
Marco Colonna, MD, has been named the Robert Rock
Belliveau, MD, Professor of Pathology at Washington University School of
Medicine in St. Louis. Shown (from left) are Colonna; Belliveau’s wife, Rita Deanin Abbey; and Belliveau.
Three School of Medicine employees have been honored with the dean’s annual distinguished service, research support staff and operations staff awards. Shown is the dean, Larry J. Shapiro, MD, with Kristin Palmquist, winner of the Dean’s Distinguished Service Award.