Clue to Alzheimer’s cause found in brain samples
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New chairs named in Arts & Sciences
Five new department chairs have been named in Arts & Sciences: Mark G. Alford, PhD, Department of Physics; Mark Rollins, PhD, Performing Arts Department; John Nachbar, PhD, Department of Economics; Hillel Kieval, PhD, Department of Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures; Peter Schmelz, PhD, Department of Music; and Timothy Moore, PhD, Department of Classics.
Fourth annual Arbor Tour examines gardens, trees and drought Oct. 25
Hour-long Fall Arbor Tour of trees and gardens on the Danforth Campus begins at 11 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 25. RSVP to kshilling@wustl.edu.
Sports update Oct. 22: Kindbom celebrates birthday as football wins at Denison
Head football coach Larry Kindbom celebrated his 60th birthday in style as the Bears posted an 18-13 victory at Denison University Oct. 20 at Piper Stadium in Granville, Ohio. WUSTL picked up its second win of the year and improves its overall record to 2-5.
Brown School celebrates World Food Day
The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis commemorated World Food Day Oct. 16 by holding a lunch in Goldfarb Commons with a discussion following. Students were given “money” base on their random selection as being from rich, poor or moderate-income countries, and were given the opportunity to join with others to receive additional funds to pool cooperatively which they could then use to
purchase food reflective of items available in those countries.
Campus Y’s Safe Trick or Treat is set for Saturday, Oct. 27
Students will be escorting little ghouls and goblins through the South 40 residence halls for the annual Safe Trick-or-Treat Saturday, Oct. 27, from 1-3 p.m. on the Danforth Campus. Games, refreshments and face painting is also planned. Open to children ages 12 and under. Sign up by Wednesday, Oct. 24 by calling the Campus Y at (314) 935-5010.
Alvin Ailey Legacy Residency
Elizabeth Roxas, a former principal dancer with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre — whom The New York Times once described as the “cool, still, lyrical center of the Ailey storm” — leads a master class with dance students in the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences earlier this month.
Use your smart phone to help you quit smoking
Smoking is both a physical addiction to nicotine and a learned psychological behavior, so the best way to quit is to attack it from both sides, says Sarah Shelton of the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. And help may be right at your fingertips in the form of your smartphone.
Video: A collaboration of hands and minds
James Siena is a New York-based artist whose complex, rule-based linear abstractions, or “visual algorithms,” result in intensely concentrated, vibrantly colored, freehand geometric patterns. This fall, Siena served as the Arthur L. and Sheila Prensky Visiting Artist at Island Press, the nationally known print shop in WUSTL’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.
Washington People: Suresh Vedantham
They said it couldn’t be done. Suresh Vedantham, MD, professor of radiology and surgery, was planning a nationwide trial comparing treatments for deep vein thromboses — dangerous blood clots in the legs’ major veins. Prior attempts had failed to meet recruitment goals, but Vedantham was eager to test a new approach. Four years later, recruitment for ATTRACT (Acute Venous Thrombosis: Thrombus Removal with Adjunctive Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis), his NIH-sponsored trial, has crossed the halfway mark.