WUSTL is celebrating Earth Day Monday, April 22, and many sustainability-themed events are planned for the week of April 22-26 on the Danforth and Medical campuses. On Monday, there with be an Earth Week Kickoff in Edison Courtyard and a climate change panel discussion featuring faculty from across the university.
Washington University in St. Louis has been named to
the Princeton Review’s list of the most environmentally responsible
“green colleges” in North America.
“Design Thinking and Innovation,”
presented in cooperation with KC America’s Creative Crossroads, will be
held from 7-9 a.m., Wednesday, April 24 at the Kauffman Center for the
Performing Arts in Kansas City. The interdisciplinary executive education seminar is taught by faculty members
from Washington University in St. Louis’ Olin Business School and the
College of Architecture.
It’s called Sketch-a-Song. It’s free and it’s
designed to make music creation accessible to everyone — even people
without formal musical training. WUSTL seniors Jacob Zax and
Adam Segal are members of the team of seven high school friends who
devoted last summer to creating the app.
Aramark Chef Shane Brassel has won the silver medal at the International
Association of Conference Centres Copper Skillet Competition.
Brassel is the Executive Chef at the Charles F. Knight Executive Education & Conference Center.
Discovering ways to honor the dignity
of individuals coping with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias is the goal of an interdisciplinary symposium on “Finding Humanity in
Advanced Dementia” to be held in Wilson Hall on the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St Louis on Saturday, April 27.
More than 1,600 people participated in the 12-hour, overnight Relay for Life April 13 and 14, which raised $220,287 for the American Cancer Society. Organized by students, WUSTL’s 11th annual Relay for Life opened with a symbolic “survivors’ lap” around Bushyhead Track.
Lisa Alvarez-Cohen, PhD, a professor of environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, will give the Ninth Annual Ryckman Lecture at 1:30 p.m. Friday, April 19. Alvarez-Cohen, the Fred and Claire Sauer Professor and past chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, will speak on “From Individuals to Community: […]
Fashion design is both a singular practice and a series of interrelated skills, from sketching and patternmaking to tailoring and construction. But for Washington University fashion majors, the puzzle pieces all come together May 5 when the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts presents its 84th Annual Fashion Design Show.
The Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP) has awarded its 2013 Norman Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award to Larry L. Jacoby, PhD, an internationally recognized scholar of human memory and a professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
