Eliot Society celebrates the Steinberg-Weil family at 46th anniversary event
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National Bike to Work Day is May 17
Friday, May 17, is National Bike to Work Day. For nearly 20 years, School of Medicine faculty Laura Bierut and Brad Evanoff have been riding their bikes to work. Earlier this week, they rode their tandem bike to the Medical Campus. The two encourage others to ride their bikes to work, too.
Class of 2013, grounded in service and study, prepares to step into the world
The Class of 2013 has left its mark on Washington University in St. Louis, and now the graduates are preparing to step out and make an impression in the larger world. They are scholars and athletes, inventors and entrepreneurs. They have trained not only to succeed professionally, but to make a difference in their communities.
Bear Cub grants foster entrepreneurship
Five Washington University scientists, including Jung-Tsung Shen, PhD, recently received Bear Cub grants. The funding helps researchers commercialize their discoveries.
MEDIA ADVISORY: Washington University Commencement is 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 17
Washington University’s 152nd Commencement begins at 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 17, in Brookings Quadrangle. The university will award 2,873 degrees to 2,752 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. The university also will bestow honorary degrees on six individuals, including Commencement speaker Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J.
IRS investigation spotlights need for Inspectors General
An executive branch Inspector General played a critical
role in exposing the IRS’s practice of targeting Tea Party groups, says
Kathleen Clark, JD, anti-corruption expert and professor of law at
Washington University in St. Louis. “As we see with the IRS controversy, an Inspector General investigation can cause heads to roll.
Perhaps that’s why some government agencies have been without an
Inspector General for a very long time – measured not in months, but in
years.” Clark notes that the State Department has been without an
Inspector General for more than five years.
Apollo 17 astronaut visits WUSTL for week of events related to lunar exploration
Harrison “Jack” Schmitt, a geologist and Apollo 17 astronaut, will be
visiting Washington University in St. Louis the week of May 20 for a
round of activities centered on lunar exploration, including a seminar about Schmitt’s geological exploration of the Moon’s Valley of Taurus-Littrow, an “exploration forum” and the review meeting of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera’s team, which is being hosted by WUSTL’s Brad Jolliff.
Vote for students’ project in NSF competition
Two WUSTL graduate students are competing in a National Science Foundation essay contest, the Innovation in Graduate Education Challenge. They propose a new course to teach graduate students how to communicate their work to the general public. Vote for their idea online now through May 29.
WUSTL alumna selected as a 2013 National Geographic Emerging Explorer
Bethany Ehlmann, who graduated from WUSTL in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in earth and planetary science, has been selected as one of 17 Emerging Explorers by National Geographic. The Emerging Explorers Program recognizes
and supports uniquely gifted and inspiring adventurers, scientists and
innovators who are at the forefront of discovery, adventure and global
problem-solving while still early in their careers.
Three doctoral candidates named Bouchet Fellows
Three WUSTL doctoral candidates were inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society at the annual Bouchet Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education April 19-20 at Yale University. The Bouchet Society, named for the first African American to earn a doctorate in the United States, recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate.