The No. 17 men’s tennis team won its seventh straight match with an 8-1 victory over No. 30 DePauw University April 21 at the Tao Tennis Center. WUSTL is 9-0 this season at home has won 15 straight home matches dating back to last season. Updates also included on women’s tennis, women’s golf, track & field, softball and baseball.
Five Arts & Sciences juniors have been awarded prestigious national scholarships. Winners of the Goldwater Scholarship are Rachel
Greenstein, a biology major, Jennifer Head, who is majoring in chemical
engineering, and Jenny Liu, who is majoring in electrical and biomedical
engineering. Madeleine Daepp, majoring in economics and mathematics, and Jeremy
Pivor, majoring in environmental biology with a minor in public health,
won the Udall Scholarship.
David M. Jaffe, MD, was elected president of the Academic Pediatric Association at its recent annual meeting in Boston. Jaffe is the Dana Brown Professor of Pediatrics and director of the Division of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and medical director of emergency services at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
WUSTL is getting ready to reclaim the Guinness world record for longest massage chain Tuesday, April 24. Graduating seniors first set the record in 2010 before a group in Thailand broke it. Now, the WUSTL football team is hoping to gather 2,000 people on Francis Field — all in an effort to raise awareness about teen suicide.
Seven distinguished alumni and a former dean of the School of Engineering &
Applied Science were honored at a dinner April 19 at the
Coronado Ballroom. Six received Alumni Achievement Awards, one a Young
Alumni Award, and the former dean received the Dean’s award. The honorees are: Larry Chiang, Richard Janis, Deepak Kantawala, Janice Karty, Milind Kulkarni, James McKelvey, Jr., Jennifer Dionne, and Sal Sutera.
The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis honored seven outstanding architecture and art alumni at its fifth annual Awards for Distinction dinner April 26. The awards recognized graduates who have demonstrated creativity, innovation, leadership and vision through their contributions to the practices of art, architecture and design, as well as to Washington University and the Sam Fox School. In addition, architect Juhani Pallasmaa of Helsinki, Finland, received the Dean’s Medal.
Charged atoms, or ions, move through tiny pores, or channels, embedded in cell membranes, generating the electrical signals that allow cells to communicate with one another. In new research, scientists have shown how an unusual protein plays a key role in temporarily blocking the movement of ions through these channels. Preventing ions from moving through the channel gives cells time to recharge so that they can continue firing.
David Warren, MD, medical director for infection control at the School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, works diligently to prevent infections, but when they do occur, he pulls out all the stops to halt their spread. And in a world that is increasingly interconnected,
Warren also must keep abreast of emerging global epidemics that have the
potential to wreak havoc if there’s a local outbreak.
The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) honored Timothy D. McBride, PhD, associate dean for public health at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, with its Outstanding Researcher Award April 19 during the NRHA’s 35th annual Rural Health Conference.
The Gephardt Institute for Public Service at Washington University in St. Louis will host a morning discussion with former Democratic Rep. Richard A. ‘Dick’ Gephardt and former Republican Sen. Christopher S. ‘Kit’ Bond at 10:30 a.m. Friday, April 27, in Simon Hall Room 109. The two former legislators will engage students and faculty on the 2012 presidential and congressional Elections.
