Washington University undergraduate students with
great solutions to problems can win $25,000 to take their innovative
ideas from concept to their own business. The School of Engineering & Applied Science has launched the Discovery Competition with the goal to promote new and innovative discoveries to solve challenges or needs.
Olin Business School has been named to the 2013 list of Military Friendly Schools released by GI Jobs magazine. The list honors the top 15 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools in the country that are doing the most to embrace America’s military service members, veterans, and spouses as students and ensure their success on campus.
The Center for Research in Economics and Strategy (CRES) at Olin Business School is hosting two special events with Kathryn Shaw, PhD, the Ernest C. Arbuckle Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Shaw is the 2012 CRES Distinguished Woman in Economics and Strategy. She will present two lectures during her visit to Olin, Sept. 27 and 28.
The employees are getting restless. Trapped in a nameless, New York company, they are buffeted by Orwellian management-speak, inter-office sabotage and inappropriate contact. And then the Firings begin. Welcome to Personal Days, the acclaimed corporate satire by fiction writer Ed Park, who will read from his work Thursday, Sept. 20, for the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences.
For some women facing fertility issues, a faster way of freezing and storing eggs is expanding their reproductive options. This new technology has improved viability of frozen eggs.
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine
in St. Louis have taken one of the first detailed looks into how
Alzheimer’s disease disrupts coordination among several of the brain’s
networks.
On Wednesday, Sept. 19, more than 115 organizations, representing 30-plus industries, will be recruiting WUSTL students and alumni at the annual Fall Internship & Job Career Fair. Senior Kelsey Brod spent the summer in Johannesburg, South Africa, working with a master printer.
The Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis will host its fifth annual conference, titled “Rising to the Challenge: Public Health in the 21st Century,” from 12:30-5 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, at the Eric P. Newman Education Center on the Medical Campus. The keynote speaker is James S. Marks, MD, senior vice president and director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Pianist and conductor William Schatzkamer, professor of music in Arts & Sciences, died Wednesday, Sept. 12, of congestive heart failure at his home in Olivette. He was 96.