Sophomore Anna Etherington set a school record in the
pole vault as one of eight event champions for the WUSTL track &
field team April 7 at the WU Select Meet. Updates also included on baseball, softball and men’s and women’s tennis.
Darrell Kirch, MD, president and chief executive of the
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), will speak at 11 a.m.
Wednesday, April 25 in Connor Auditorium in the Farrell Learning and
Teaching Center.
Chuck Todd, chief White House correspondent for NBC
News, will present “American Politics and the 2012 Elections” at 7:30
p.m. Monday, April 16, at Graham Chapel on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. The event is sponsored by WUSTL’s Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy.
Garry Kasparov, considered the best chess player of all time and a champion of democracy in Russia, recently visited campus and offered advice on outmaneuvering opponents in politics and business. In addition to his talk, Kasparov played a lucky audience member as part of a demonstration.
As the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic draws near, Gaylyn Studlar, PhD, director of Film and Media Studies in Arts & Sciences, discusses film adaptations of the event and why James Cameron’s Titanic has become the iconic version of the tragedy, as well as the changing tastes of movie-goers and how they may impact the 3D re-release of Cameron’s film.
At 22, Cheryl Strayed thought she’d lost everything. Her mother died of cancer, her family scattered in grief and her marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, Strayed made an impulsive decision to hike the Pacific Crest Trail alone. The story of that journey, from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State, is told in Wild, Strayed’s New York Times bestselling memoir. On April 12, Strayed will read from her work for The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences.
Kurt Dirks, PhD, Bank of America Professor of Managerial Leadership at Olin Business School, discusses trust in the workplace. “It’s particularly timely,” he says, “given that trust in leaders of almost all sectors ranging from business to government to education are at record lows.”
Growing up in the picturesque town of Sandomierz in southeastern Poland, Lilianna Solnica-Krezel, PhD, was a serious student and an uncommonly avid reader. Today, Solnica-Krezel, professor and head of the Department of Developmental Biology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is a leading expert in understanding the earliest stages of life’s development.
The Jump Start our Business Start-ups (JOBS) Act, an
entrepreneurship bill signed into law April 5 by President Barack Obama,
could help open an entirely new class of investor to a process they
largely have been held out of, says an expert at Washington University
in St. Louis.
In a down economy where advertisers are concerned about
every dollar spent, a team of researchers at Washington University in
St. Louis has developed a new method of measuring the effectiveness of
Google search advertising, taking into account not only online sales,
but goods or services purchased off-line as well.