The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education will name Washington University in St. Louis as the winner of its “Best Lessons Learned Case Study Award” on Tuesday, Oct. 11, during the AASHE 2011 Conference in Pittsburgh. The award, for the case study, “Getting to Net-Zero: Lessons Learned from a Living Building Challenge,” which outlined “the mistakes, corrections, and lessons learned that ultimately led to successful certification” of WUSTL’s Living Learning Center at Tyson Research Center as one of the first net zero energy “living buildings.”
Through the Social Change Grant program, students are encouraged to use their creativity and knowledge to find solutions to world problems. The program provides $5,000-$6,000 in funding for a summer service project. The many projects — from water purification in Uganda to family planning in India — will be highlighted during an Oct. 12 showcase in Danforth University Center.
Interest in social entrepreneurship — using innovation and enterprise to address social problems — has exploded, but training has always been from a business perspective. This fall, the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis will be home to the first social entrepreneurship program based in a social work setting.
The No. 2 volleyball team set a new Division III record for consecutive set victories in a 3-0 win over Lindenwood University (25-13, 25-17, 25-16) at the Washington University Invitational Oct. 8. Updates also included in football, men’s and women’s soccer, golf and swimming & diving.
Kent Theiling Jr., grounds and landscape design manager for the Danforth Campus, will lead a Fall Arbor Tour Wednesday, Oct. 19. The guided tour will start at 11 a.m. at the Danforth Garden in front of Brookings Hall and is expected to last approximately an hour. The tour will take participants on a walk throughout the Danforth Campus to learn more about the different kind of trees located on campus.
Nationally acclaimed poet Lucie Brock-Broido will present a talk on the craft of poetry at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11, for the Writing Program Reading Series. Brock-Broido is the author of three books of poetry: Trouble in Mind (2004), The Master Letters (1995) and A Hunger (1988). Her work often explores obsessions and anxieties — of influence, ritual, mortality and modernity — using shifting syntax and diction to create vivid, and sometimes disorienting, portraits of mind.
Washington University School of Medicine is launching a new fellowship designed to give participants an inside look at the operation and governance of an academic medical center. Applications are due Oct. 15.
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Orthopaedic surgeon John C. Clohisy, MD, came from a medical family. His father was a general surgeon, and his mother a nurse anesthetist. More than half of their 10 children followed them into the field. But even that family pedigree didn’t make a career in medicine a “slam dunk” for Clohisy because he also was interested in teaching and research. Luckily, academic medicine allows him to pursue all three.
The Charles F. Knight Executive Education & Conference Center was feted for its 10th anniversary Oct. 5 with a celebration in the building’s Anheuser-Busch Dining Room.
First-year MBA student Katie Coco (center) packs energy bars into a care package during the Olin Cares kickoff event Oct. 1 in Simon Hall. More than 40 Olin Business School students assembled care packages for service men and women overseas and for children with cancer. Olin Cares is the school’s graduate volunteer organization that sponsors several community service projects throughout the year.
