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 opening session of “SPIN-IT: A Leadership Program for Women in IT” will be held April 24. The event features a guest speaker, Vivian Eveloff, director of the Sue Shear Institute for Women in Public Life at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The event is open to members of the WUSTL community, but space is limited.
Students at Washington University in St. Louis are working around the clock this week preparing for the Thurtene Carnival, which starts Friday, April 19. The carnival includes facades, miniature house-like structures that student groups build and decorate, inside which carnivalgoers can enjoy student-created plays.
The Irving Boime Symposium will be held Thursday, April 18, at the Eric P. Newman Education Center, Seminar Room B, on the Washington University Medical Campus. Shown is Irving Boime, PhD, the namesake and one of the speakers.
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.