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Exploring other disciplines
Clarissa Cagnato, a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology in Arts & Sciences, was among more than 60 graduate students who presented research during the 17th annual Graduate Research Symposium Feb. 18. The symposium provides graduate students an opportunity to present their research to a broad and diverse audience and gain important communications skills in the process.
No Boundaries: Women Leaders of Washington University
“No Boundaries: Women Leaders of Washington University,” an intergenerational discussion group, will be held from 3-4 p.m. on Tuesday, March 6, in Brown Hall Lounge. An RSVP is required by Tuesday, Feb. 28.
Lucy Ferriss reads for Writing Program March 6
It is a harrowing prologue. Teenagers Brooke and Alex, high school sweethearts, panicked by an accidental pregnancy, rent a hotel room to deliver their stillborn child. So opens The Lost Daughter, the sixth and most recent novel by St. Louis native Lucy Ferriss. On Tuesday, March 6, Ferriss, writer-in-residence at Trinity College in Hartford, will read from her work for The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences.
Mirica receives Sloan Research Fellowship
Liviu M. Mirica, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won a prestigious research fellowship from the Sloan Foundation. Mirica will use the funds to develop novel catalysts that will be able to efficiently convert the greenhouse gases methane
(CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) into useful chemicals.
Open forum on 2012 election year activities at WUSTL
The Gephardt Institute for Public Service invites student groups,
centers, departments and schools, as well as individual members of the
University community, to join an open discussion about plans for the 2012
election year. The meeting will be held from 4-5:30 p.m. Monday, March 5, in the Multipurpose Room, lower level of
Mallinckrodt Center on the Danforth Campus.
Lenke named chief of spine surgery
Lawrence G. Lenke, MD, has been appointed chief of spinal surgery in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He succeeds Keith H. Bridwell, MD, head of the spine service for the past 28 years.
Burton Wheeler, longtime faculty member, former dean, 84
Burton M. Wheeler, PhD, professor emeritus of English and of religious studies, both in Arts & Sciences, and a beloved teacher and former dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Friday, Feb. 17, at his home in Warson Woods, Mo., after a long battle with cancer. He would have
turned 85 March 12.
Assembly Series features lectures by Rifkin, Boyle
Global economies and the Internet are upcoming topics by the next two speakers for the Washington University in St. Louis Assembly Series. Economic forecaster and social observer Jeremy Rifkin will speak at 2 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27, in Graham Chapel. James Boyle, JD, the William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School, will speak at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 29, in the Anheuser-Busch Hall Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom.
Celebrating our namesake
Chancellor Marks S. Wrighton slices the cake in celebration of George Washington’s birthday Feb. 20 in Tisch Commons, Danforth University Center. George Washington Week, an annual tradition celebrating the university’s namesake, is sponsored by the sophomore honorary Lock and Chain.