Attorney and women’s rights activist Sandra Fluke, who last February testified before the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee on the need to provide access to contraception, will kick off the spring lecture series sponsored by the Danforth Center on Religion & Politics at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 12, in Simon Hall’s May Auditorium.
The Gephardt Institute for Public Service at WUSTL has announced faculty scholars receiving Innovation Grants for Community-Based Teaching and Learning. The grants provide faculty members with financial support for curriculum development and implementation.
If you have a coworker in the School of Medicine who deserves recognition for what he or she does, consider nominating that person for this year’s Dean’s Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor awarded to a medical school staff member.
Beginning Monday, Feb. 4, there will be a new WUSM ride-home service, offering students and employees free transportation to their homes in the DeBaliviere Place and Skinker/DeBaliviere/Parkview neighborhoods. The white, 15-passenger vans operated by Veolia Transportation will depart from the Olin Circle on the hour and half-hour from 5 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Mondays through […]
Severely malnourished children are far more likely to recover and survive when given antibiotics along with a therapeutic peanut-butter based food than children who are treated with the therapeutic food alone, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found. Indi Trehan, MD, the study’s lead author, shows parents in Malawi how to measure medication.
Regina (Gina) F. Frey, PhD, associate professor of STEM education in the department of chemistry in Arts & Sciences and executive director of the Teaching Center, will be installed as the initial Florence E. Moog Professor of STEM Education on January 31, 2013.The professorship honors two of WUSTL’s women scientists, one past and one present, while also recognizing its deep commitment to excel in teaching the disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
The fourth-annual Olin Sustainability Case Competition will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, in Simon Hall’s May Auditorium. Titled “Blight, Plight and Urban Flight,” the competition offers students an opportunity to
make an impact at WUSTL through creative solutions to real problems
affecting the community.
Eric Hoffman, professor of practice in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has won a national 2013 Young Architects Award from the American Institute of Architects. Hoffman is both the first Sam Fox School faculty member and the first Sam Fox School alumnus to receive the honor, among the highest available to architects in the early stages of their careers.
A study of young twins in Malawi, in sub-Saharan Africa, finds that bacteria living in the intestine are an underlying cause of a form of severe acute childhood malnutrition.
The
Public Interest Law and Policy Speakers Series continues Thursday,
Feb. 7, with Arlie Hochschild, professor emerita of sociology at the
University of California at Berkeley, on “The Outsourced Self: Intimate
Life in Market Times ” at noon in the
Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom (Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 310).
