Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is playing a leading role in one of the National Institutes of Health’s first clinical trials to improve treatments for rare and neglected diseases. In this case, the disease is Niemann-Pick Type C, a disorder that causes excess cholesterol to accumulate in the brain, liver and spleen. It affects about 500 children worldwide, leads to neurodegeneration, and usually causes death in the first two decades of life.
Linda Babcock, co-author of “Women Don’t Ask:
Negotiations and the Gender Divide,” will discuss that topic during a
public lecture at 9 a.m. April 12 in Simon Hall, Room 106. The
lecture is part of the “Distinguished Women in Economics and Strategy”
series sponsored by WUSTL’s Center for Research in Economics and
Strategy, housed in Olin Business School.
Washington University served as host to the Clinton Global Initiative University this past weekend, helping put global student service in the spotlight.
As part of its Clinton Global Initiative University efforts, Washington University in St. Louis has announced a major institutional commitment to action around the important issue of sustainability.
Washington University leaders and selected academic partners meet in India to address the urgent global need for affordable, environmentally friendly access to energy.
The plight of millions of people in rural India who are reliant on solid fuels to cook their food and to heat their homes is the focus of Fires, Fuel & the Fate of 3 Billion: The State of the Energy Impoverished by Gautam Yadama with photography by Mark Katzman. (The book is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.)
Following the global energy symposium in Mumbai, Chancellor Mark Wrighton and Washington University delegates moved on to a meeting of the International Advisory Council for Asia (IACA), which took place Dec. 12–15, 2012, in New Delhi.
The MySci Resource Center, the new hub of Washington University’s Institute for School Partnership, launched Feb. 18 in University City, Mo., to great fanfare.
