Parents shared a picnic lunch with their children at the Washington University Family Learning Center April 19 to celebrate the Week of the Young Child. Shown, Katie Wools, of the Olin Business School, eats with her 3-year-old daughter, Penny.
Chenyang Lu, PhD, professor of computer science & engineering in the School of
Engineering & Applied Science, and colleagues, have developed a unique system they call a
Wireless Cyber-Physical Simulator, which can help bridges and other structures survive natural disasters.
Student Life, the independent newspaper of Washington University, won 23 awards in the Missouri College Media Association 2013 Newspaper contest, the Missouri Press Association recently announced.
Susan Rotroff, PhD, a classical archaeologist, and Leigh Schmidt, PhD, historian of American religion, are the latest Washington University scholars to be selected for prestigious fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Rotroff and Schmidt were among 175 Guggenheim Fellows chosen in 2013 from almost 3,000 scholars, artists and scientists in the United States and Canada. The Guggenheim fellowship is awarded on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise.
Susan E. Lanzendorf, PhD, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of the in vitro fertilization lab, died April 2 from complications of pancreatic cancer. She was 54.
Defining Moments, an innovative course offered at Olin
Business School, allows students to interact with top leaders in the
corporate world who exemplify integrity and excellence. The course
engages students to think about how they can achieve success without sacrificing character.
A low-cost medical device targeted at improving
world health has taken home the top prize in Washington University
School of Engineering & Applied Science’s inaugural Discovery
Competition. Sparo Labs took the largest prize of $25,000. The company’s plan stems from an
award-winning project to develop a low-cost, pocket-sized spirometer,
which measures lung function.
An event to celebrate and reminisce about Jewish
Hospital and the Jewish College of Nursing will be held 4 to 6 p.m. May 8
in the lobby of the Kingshighway Building, 216 S. Kingshighway Blvd.
Timothy Eberlein, chairman of the Department of Surgery, has been named the inaugural winner of the Pillar of Support Award. The award was created by the Academic Women’s Network at the School of Medicine to recognize outstanding support of female faculty.
The Brown School held its second annual Research Without Walls student research symposium April 25 in the hallways of Brown and Goldfarb Halls on the Danforth Campus. The symposium gives students practice in presenting their research to peers, professors and the public in a relaxed, informal setting.