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Trustees grant faculty promotions, tenure
At recent Board of Trustees meetings, many faculty members were appointed with tenure, promoted with tenure or granted tenure. Read more to see who they are.
Hoops Day readies campus for Thurtene Carnival
Despite a snow storm, students came out for Hoops Day March 24, sponsored by Thurtene Junior Honorary, a lead-up event to the annual carnival. Organizers offered a youth basketball clinic and a 3-on-3 tournament at the Athletic Complex.
Photo project encourages family, friends to schedule colon cancer screenings
The dangers of surveillance – it’s bad, but why?
Surveillance is everywhere, from street corner cameras to the subject of books
and movies. “We talk a lot about why surveillance is bad, but we don’t
really know why,” says Neil Richards, JD, privacy law expert and
professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. “We only have a
vague intuition about it, which is why courts don’t protect it. We know
we don’t like it, and that it has something to do with privacy, but
beyond that, the details can be fuzzy.” Richards’ new article on the topic, “The Danger of Surveillance,” will be published in the next issue of the Harvard Law Review.
Three challenges for the First Amendment
A group of some of the country’s top scholars in First
Amendment law recently gathered at Washington University in St. Louis to discuss pressing challenges
being faced by the first of our Bill of Rights. Three issues rose to the
top of the list for Washington University’s first amendment experts:
free expression in a digital age; impaired political debate; and
weakened rights of groups.
Loop living: Celebrating the start of construction
During a recent reception to mark the beginning of the Loop Student Living Initiative’s construction phase, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton thanked University City and City of St. Louis government officials, business owners and residents for their role in the project’s progression. The celebration was held at the Three Kings Public House on Delmar Boulevard, which is in the same block as the construction.
Winners of 26th annual book collection competition announced
When Carl Neureuther, a 1940 graduate of Washington University, set up an endowment in 1987 to support library collections, he was also ensuring support for something more: a lifelong love of reading. The results are in for this year’s Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition sponsored by Washington University Libraries.
Learning about diversity in recruitment, hiring and retention
On March 26, the Campus Diversity Collaborative and Human Resources Department teamed up to offer a panel discussion in College Hall on “Diversity in Recruitment, Hiring, and Retention: Challenges and Resources.” More than 80 staff and faculty members heard from panelists who discussed their research expertise and professional experience related to diversity and inclusion.
All eyes on Secretary Chu
On a recent visit to Washington, D.C., graduate and professional students of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy had the opportunity to hear from and meet with outgoing U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu.