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Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland honors Dacey

Ralph. G. Dacey Jr., the Henry G. and Edith R. Schwartz Professor and chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at Washington University, has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He traveled to Dublin earlier this month to receive the honor.

Medicine & Health

Human Connectome Project releases major data set on brain connectivity

The Human Connectome Project, a five-year endeavor to link brain connectivity to human behavior, has just released a set of high-quality imaging and behavioral data to the scientific community. Shown is a map of the average “functional connectivity” in the human cerebral cortex, collected on healthy subjects while “at rest” in the MRI scanner.

Men’s basketball team hosts NCAA second round March 9

The No. 17 Washington University in St. Louis men’s basketball team will host No. 10 Illinois Wesleyan University in the second round of the 2013 NCAA Division III Men’s Basketball Championship Saturday, March 9, at the Field House. Game time is 7 p.m.

Business & Entrepreneurship

Olin students work with St. Louis startup Lockerdome on market and finance research

LockerDome CEO and cofounder Gabe Lozano, who spoke recently at Olin Business School, shares some of the credit for attracting investors with students at Olin. Student teams in one of the school’s venture consulting courses worked closely with LockerDome’s CFO, Mark Lewis, on market and financial analysis research projects this semester. Here, Lozano speaks about the collaboration via video.

Humanities & Society

CGI U announces 2013 speakers; new CGI University Network to fund student commitments

President Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton announced the program and featured participants for the sixth annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) to be held at Washington University in St. Louis April 5-7. In addition to President Clinton and Chelsea Clinton, Stephen Colbert, Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus and WUSTL’s Michael Sherraden are among the featured speakers.

2013 CGI U speakers at WUSTL

A complete list of the featured speakers at Clinton Global Initiative University on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis April 5-7, 2013.

Campus & Community

Project Blacktop: Student athlete Cooney works to make a difference in St. Louis

Student athlete Tim Cooney grew up in St. Louis and rarely had a place where his friends could gather and play a pickup game of basketball. Cooney, a junior guard on the WUSTL men’s basketball team, is trying to change that for future generations.

Engineers Week inspires current and future engineers

The annual Engineers Week, held Feb. 25-March 2, featured activities ranging from a paper airplane contest to a butter-sculpting competition to a lecture by cast members of the Discovery Channel’s “Mythbusters” television show. Read more to see video and photos.

Leading Together campaign film wins ‘Platinum Best of Show’ Aurora Award

The campaign video for Washington University’s “Leading Together: The Campaign for Washington University” has won a Platinum Best of Show award at the Fall 2012 Aurora Awards competition in the fund raising category.

Arts & Culture

Art and politics during World War II

Does art have a moral duty to be politically engaged? On Thursday, March 7, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will explore that question and more with “Committed Culture: A Panel Discussion on Politics and Aesthetics During World War II.”