The spring 2012 Assembly Series begins Friday, Feb. 10, with acclaimed author and educator Parker Palmer, PhD. An underlying theme for many of the speakers this semester is the inherent human need to connect mind and body with heart and soul, whether it be through music, humor, creativity or fun.
Nine finalists were selected Jan. 26 to compete
for more than $125,000 in grants in April at the 2011-12 YouthBridge
Social Enterprise and Innovation Competition (SEIC) at Washington
University in St. Louis. The competition is a joint partnership between the YouthBridge Community Foundation and WUSTL’s Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.
Consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble’s move
to lay off some 1,600 employees globally, many in the marketing area,
foretells a trend in which more companies will move their advertising
dollars from traditional to digital media, says a marketing expert at
Washington University in St. Louis.
Help the university recognize a staff member who goes above and beyond to help students, faculty or others in the WUSTL community by nominating him or her for the Gloria W. White Distinguished Service Award. The Gloria White award recognizes a staff member for his or her exceptional effort and contributions that result in the betterment of the university. Nominations must be submitted by Friday, Feb. 24.
School-age children whose mothers nurtured them early in life have brains with a larger hippocampus, a key structure important to learning, memory and response to stress. The new research, by child psychiatrists and neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is the first to show that changes in this key region of children’s brain anatomy are linked to a mother’s nurturing.
PB&Joy, the university-wide food drive, soon will be under way and all faculty, staff and students are invited to join a planning committee. Anyone interested is asked to attend a planning meeting Feb. 2 or 3 in Danforth University Center. Last year’s drive yielded three tons of food for area people in need.
Men’s basketball picked up two big wins over the University of Rochester and Emory University and gained first place in University Athletic Association standings. Updates also included on women’s basketball, track and field, and women’s soccer team fundraiser.
Public health in St. Louis is the first social
issue to be explored during “St. Louis Up Close,” a new series featuring
casual conversations with local nonprofit leaders. Five more discussions are planned for the series, which is
sponsored by the Gephardt Institute for Public Service and the
Community Service Office. All talks are free and open to the public.
The lab of Jospeh Jez, PhD, associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, crystallizes proteins so that people can see what they look like in three dimensions. But getting proteins to crystallize is difficult and involves an element of luck — so one of Jez’s main jobs is to be the lab’s unreasonable optimist.
