Corporations’ religious freedom claims against the
Affordable Care Act’s contraception coverage mandate miss a “basic fact
of health economics: health insurance, like wages, is compensation that
belongs to the employee,” says Elizabeth Sepper, JD, health law expert
and associate professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis.
Sepper’s scholarship explores the interaction of morality, professional
ethics, and law in medicine.
The Community Service Office has announced the availability of more than $42,000 for Social Change Grant projects in summer 2013. WUSTL students are invited to build proposals for full or part-time summer work in the development and implementation of an innovative community project.
The Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine began seeing patients Jan. 7 at Siteman’s newest outpatient location,in south St. Louis County.
Super-TIGER the WUSTL-led cosmic ray experiment, has just been given the
green light for a third circuit around Antarctica. If the balloon stays up for a complete circuit it will probably break the heavy-lift scientific ballooning record of 42 days — and bring in a rich haul of data about cosmic rays, charged particles that continually bombard the Earth from space. The team has gone positively piratical over the prospect of more booty.
Curious who else on campus is tweeting? Join the University Libraries for its winter Tweet Up Wednesday, Jan. 9, in Olin Library’s Ginkgo Reading Room on level 1.
Lynn A. Cornelius, chief of the Division of Dermatology at Washington University School of Medicine, has been named the Winfred A. and Emma R. Showman Professor in Dermatology. Cornelius specializes in the treatment and research of melanoma, a deadly skin cancer.
Lora Iannotti, PhD, assistant professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, was working in Haiti when an earthquake devastated that country three years ago this month. She has been back to Haiti 10 times since Jan. 12, 2010, and says the country is “literally aching for public health expertise, yet not one public health degree program exists anywhere.”
The Hon. Randall R. Rader, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, will present “A View From the Federal Circuit: A Conversation With Chief Judge Randall R.
Rader,” including a panel discussion with members of local bar associations, from
3-4:15 p.m. Friday, Jan.18. The event will be in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom (Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 310); a reception will follow in the Janite Lee Reading Room. To RSVP for the event, visit http://law.wustl.edu/faculty/forms/rsvpform.asp?BookingID=234714.
Sophomore forward Melissa Gilkey scored 18 of her game-high 22 points in the first half to lead the No. 3 women’s basketball team to a 96-67 victory at the University of Chicago in the University Athletic Association (UAA) opener for both teams Saturday in the Windy City.
Rita Levi-Montalcini, PhD, a Nobel Prize-winning neurologist who performed the majority of her research at Washington University in St. Louis from 1947-1977, died Sunday, Dec. 30, at her home in Rome. She was 103.
