Obituary: Gibbons, lab technician, 51
Marilyn Gibbons, a lab technician at The Genome Institute, died of cancer Aug. 3, 2012. She was 51.
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Gephardt Institute offers weekly panel discussions for election season
Beginning Thursday, Sept. 20, and running through the week of the national election, the Gephardt Institute for Public Service is offering “Issues and Ideas: Election 2012,” a series of evening panel discussions on a wide range of political issues and topics.
Legal fight over royal vacation photos highlights difference between European and American views of privacy and free speech
Britain’s royal family has obtained an injunction against the French magazine Closer to prevent it from publishing topless photographs of the Duchess of
Cambridge, Kate Middleton. “The case would likely come out differently if
it were brought in the United States,” says Neil Richards, JD,
professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. Richards, an internationally recognized expert in privacy and free speech law who hails from England, explains that English and European courts have been very aggressive in stopping media
from publishing pictures delving into the sex lives of celebrities.
New Discovery Competition offers $25,000 prize to undergraduates for innovative ideas
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 makes military friendly list
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.
‘Value of Bosses’ topic of Sept. 27 Olin lecture
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.
Ed Park to read Sept. 20
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.
New egg freezing method expands reproductive options
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.
Alzheimer’s breaks brain networks’ coordination
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.
Students ‘test drive’ jobs with internships
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.