School of Medicine employees were focused on health Feb. 3 with the Health Happening health and wellness fair at the Eric P. Newman Education Center, where more than 40 vendors provided health information and free health screenings. In addition, employees who participated in the Tread the Med “Be a Walk Star” 100-day walking campaign were honored at a reception in the McDonnell Pediatrics Building Atrium.
The Washington University Libraries have acquired the archives of internationally recognized artist Ernest Trova (1927-2009). Trova’s archives, which will be housed in WUSTL’s Modern Graphic History Library, provide researchers a glimpse into his life and his art-making process.
The Women’s Society of Washington University (WSWU) is seeking nominations of full-time senior women students for the Harriet K. Switzer Leadership Award. Nominations should be sent to the WSWU Office at Campus Box 1081 or emailed to sharon_britt@wustl.edu by Friday, Feb. 10. This award is presented to the honoree at WSWU’s annual membership meeting in April.
Members of WU Style Step perform a rally scene during Black Anthology in Edison Theatre. Now in its 22nd year, the annual student-run production educates people about African-American culture and highlights important issues. This year’s production, “Lest We Forget,” focused on the tumultuous 1960s.
Facebook’s initial public offering (IPO) filing shows real numbers for profit and revenues, which are likely to drive a valuation that could be as high as $100 billion.This astronomical number does require some aggressive assumptions about future growth, but the high valuation may be more justified than for other internet companies, says Mark T. Leary, PhD, assistant professor of finance at Washington University’s Olin Business School.
New research from the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
– Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project (PCGP) shows that mutations linked to a rare, lethal childhood tumor of the
brainstem play a unique role in other aggressive pediatric brain tumors. The findings offer important insight into a poorly understood tumor that kills more than 90 percent of patients within two years.
The following are among the new faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis: Derek Hoeferlin; Irena Knezevic; Seng Kuan, PhD; Gary J. Patti, PhD; and Monika Weiss.
Michael Suarez, SJ, will speak on “Rare Books in the Digital World” at 7 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 16, in Steinberg Hall Auditorium on the Danforth Campus. Suarez directs the Rare Book
School, an independent, nonprofit institute for the study of books,
printing, and related subjects located at the University of Virginia.
The No. 25 men’s basketball team snapped No. 17 Emory University’s 17-game home winning streak with a 92-83 victory Feb. 5 in Atlanta. The
victory enabled WUSTL, who lost Feb. 3 at the University of Rochester,
to remain in a tie for first place in the University Athletic
Association standings with New York University. Updates also included on women’s basketball, track and field and men’s tennis.
Cheat on your wife. Betray your colleagues. The moral thing to do is whatever makes you feel good. When a beloved radio talk-show host dies, his son highjacks the station’s memorial broadcast to preach an inflammatory reading of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance. So begins Radio Free Emerson, a loose adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck by contemporary playwright Paul Grellong.
