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.
Today is the final day for PB&Joy, a university-wide initiative, in partnership with Operation Food Search, to collect food for the 135,000 area children who struggle for consistent meals over summer when school is out. It’s not to late to take part. There are many food drop-off locations across WUSTL’s four campuses and it’s also possible to make contributions online.
Professor Gerald L. Early, PhD, an internationally renowned essayist and American culture critic, was recognized with a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame during an April 11 induction ceremony in front of the Moonrise Hotel on Delmar Boulevard in The Loop. His brass star and a bronze plaque will be embedded at a later time near the corner of Delmar and Eastgate Avenue after construction is completed on the first phase of WUSTL’s Loop Student Living Initiative.
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.