WUSTL receives Institution of the Year award for its work with minority-owned businesses
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Tread the Med exercise program under way
Cheating — and getting away with it
We would all like to believe that there is a kind of
karma in life that guarantees those who cheat eventually pay for their
bad behavior, if not immediately, then somewhere down the line. But a
study of a new gene in the amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum suggests that, at least for amoebae, it is possible to cheat and get away with it.
Silva named Peterson Professor in Orthopaedics
Who pays? The wage-insurance trade-off and corporate religious freedom claims
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.
Social Change Grants available for student summer projects
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.
Siteman Cancer Center opens south St. Louis County location
Super-TIGER going for a record!!!
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.
Three years after catastrophic earthquake, Haiti remains stricken with poverty, disease
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.”
“A View From the Federal Circuit: A Conversation With Chief Judge Randall R. Rader” Jan. 18
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.