The School of Medicine’s 9th Annual Art Show opened Jan. 22 and will run through Feb. 17 in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center. The show features artwork by more than 60 artists within the School of Medicine. Shown is “Tree of Life,” a sculpture carved from black walnut by Gerald W. Dorn II, MD, the Philip and Sima K. Needleman Professor. Admiring it are first-year medical students Linda Ma (left) and Shruti Mishra.
This week, Chancellor Wrighton travels to Ghana to meet with officials from the University of Ghana and sign official papers making the university the 28th partner – and the first in Africa — in the McDonnell International Scholars Academy.
“The Happiness Series,” a series of weekly lectures on various positive psychology topics by Timothy J. Bono, PhD, assistant dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and lecturer in psychology, will take place at 7 p.m. on Wednesday evenings during the spring semester. The series begins on Feb. 13 with a presentation on “The science of happiness: What it is, what it’s not, and how it’s pursued.”
Kathy Ryan, program coordinator in the School of Medicine’s Career Counseling Office, helps students navigate the long, arduous and high-stakes process of national residency matching.
A “Global Tea” event was held Jan. 31 in Danforth University Center as an opportunity for undergraduate students to learn about the new Global Certificate offered by the university. Event organizers obtained donations of tea from international students returning to St. Louis after winter break.
This week, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton travels to Ghana to meet with officials from the University of Ghana and sign official papers making the university the 28th partner — and the first in Africa — in the McDonnell International Scholars Academy.
Washington University in St. Louis’ Olin Business
School, in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in
Herzliya, Israel, and Onward Israel, is launching an Israel Summer
Business Academy, aimed at providing students an opportunity to
learn firsthand about business in Israel, one of the most vibrant hubs
of entrepreneurship in the world.
If that headline doesn’t grab your attention, new research from Washington University in St. Louis’ Olin Business School on the “Psychological and Sexual Costs of Income Comparison in Marriage”should. The study, by Lamar Pierce, PhD, professor of strategy at Olin, shows that men married to women with higher
incomes are more likely to use erectile dysfunction medication than their male breadwinner counterparts.
This fall Joan Strassmann, PhD, professor of biology in Arts & Sciences taught a course in behavior ecology that was also an official Wikipedia course that required students both to edit an existing Wikipedia entry and then either add 25
references and 2500 words to a second entries or to create new ones. “No work by students as good as Washington University’s students should ever end up
in a professor’s drawer,” said Strassmann. “It was their responsibility
as smart people who were getting a great education to help others.”
Timothy McBride, PhD, professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis and an expert on healthcare policy and health economics, has been named chairman of the MO HealthNET Oversight Committee for the state of Missouri.