Design with the Other 90%: CITIES, now on view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, collects dozens of smart, problem-solving projects from around the globe. On Saturday, Oct. 20, six St. Louis not-for-profits will present their own “Community Design Challenges” as part of the museum’s fall Community Day. The free, all-ages event also will feature art-making, scavenger hunts and other activities.
Helen E. Nash, MD, professor emerita (clinical) in pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died Oct. 4, 2012, at Clermont Manor in Creve Coeur. She was 91.
Aaron Copland and George Gershwin are perhaps the most iconically American of composers. On Oct. 21, three faculty from WUSTL’s Department of Music in Arts & Sciences will join a string quartet from the St. Louis Symphony for the concluding concert of the 2012 American Arts Experience-St. Louis. The program will highlight works by Copland and Gershwin as well as by Antonín Dvorák, who played a prominent role in encouraging American composers.
Peter Nagele, MD, assistant professor of anesthesiology, has received the 2012 Presidential Scholar Award from the American Society of Anesthesiologists. The award, presented Oct. 15 at the society’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., is given each year to an anesthesiologist who has dedicated the formative years of his/her career to research.
A molecule involved in asthma and allergies has now been shown to make mice resistant to skin cancer, according to Raphael Kopan, PhD, and his colleagues at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Rodney Jones has been named manager of Washington University in St. Louis’ Campus Store. Jones, who previously was assistant manager of the Campus Store, replaces former director Betsy Schneider, who retired in June.
The Community Service Office is holding a drive on behalf of the National Bone Marrow Registry at several locations on the Danforth Campus Wednesday, Oct. 17. The process only takes about 20 minutes and requires a cheek swab. The registry seeks to help people who need bone marrow transplants or are healing from leukemia and other life-threatening diseases.
Scanning the DNA of two people with a rare disease has led scientists to identify the precise genetic error responsible for their disorder, which causes persistent lung, sinus and ear infections, male infertility, and sometimes a reversed orientation of major organs in the body. The defect affects hair-like structures called cilia that extend from many cells in the body.
Wayne M. Yokoyama, MD, and Charles F. Zorumski, MD, have been elected to the Institute of Medicine, a part of the National Academy of Sciences. Membership in the organization is one of the highest honors physician-scientists in the U.S. can receive.
2012 graduate Elizabeth Phillips was named the 2012 NCAA Woman of the Year, as announced at a ceremony Sunday in Indianapolis. Phillips is the third NCAA Division III student-athlete to win the award, joining Ashley Jo Rowatt of Kenyon College (2003) and Laura Barito of Stevens Institute of Technology (2011).