Weekday $5 lunch specials are returning to the Bear’s Den on the South 40 this academic year. The specials, which are offered at each Bear’s Den eatery open during lunch, are available from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday-Friday. New this year is a $5 special at Paws & Go: a cup of soup, half sandwich and a fountain drink.
Americans are remaining in the workforce longer and many are changing or advancing their careers well past age 40. “With this trend towards working longer, educational institutions have been trying to figure out their role in keeping up with the needs of our aging society,” says Nancy Morrow-Howell, PhD, the Ralph and Muriel Pumphrey Professor of Social Work at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. The Brown School decided to study the experiences of their students who came to get their MSW after the age of 40. The survey focuses on pathways to graduate school, their experience in the classroom as well as field, and their post-MSW careers. Morrow-Howell says that these results can be applied to other graduate programs, particularly in fields that may face labor shortages in the future, such as education, health and social services.
The Gephardt Institute for Public Service at Washington University in St. Louis has selected seven juniors for the inaugural cohort of the Civic Scholars Program. Civic Scholars will enroll in two years of academic course work related to civic leadership and receive mentorship to prepare them for a life dedicated to public service.
The Federal Reserve’s latest plan to prop up the sagging American economy, known as Operation Twist, won’t have a significant impact, says a finance expert at Washington University in St. Louis.
Tekno Bubbles employee Tim Tatz hands out bubble soap to children during the Family Learning Center’s one-year anniversary celebration Sept. 16 at the center on the North Campus. The event for the center’s parents and children featured a bubble artist, bounce house, face painter, children’s entertainer and more.
Mary C. Molloy, secretary and receptionist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science since 1981, died Sept. 3, 2011, of a stroke. She was 81.
Danforth Campus eateries will offer meals made entirely of local food — with the exception of salt — Tuesday, Sept. 27, as part of WUSTL Dining Services’ Eat Local Challenge. Ingredients for Eat Local Challenge meals will come from farmers and artisans within 150 miles of WUSTL.
Nearly 50 first-year students at Washington University in St. Louis created their own chapter to the novel The Cellist of Sarajevo, as part of the First-Year Reading Program Contest. Five contest winners were treated to lunch with author Steven Galloway, including Juliet Kinder, who won the grand prize and a $250 gift certificate to the Washington University Campus Store.
The Gephardt Institute for Public Service at Washington University in St. Louis and the Career Center are sponsoring the annual Government and Public Policy Career Days on Tuesday, Sept. 27, and Wednesday, Sept. 28.
New research shows that the likelihood of a medical school graduate becoming board certified is linked to age at graduation, race and ethnicity, and level of debt. The study, by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, was published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).