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Dining Services announces summer schedule

Most students are gone for the summer, but WUSTL Dining Services is keeping notable locations open on the Danforth Campus to serve students, faculty and staff remaining on campus from June 14-August 14.

Staff members honored for years of service

At the service awards ceremony, the following people were recognized for 10 years of service to the university: Chiquita C. Anderson, Bethann M. Anglin, David L. Archer, Jason R. Becker, Henry Biggs, Jeannine D. Cahill, Ai-Li Cai, Jennifer Chandler, Wade Andrew Charleston, Mary Ann Clifford, Gregory Macleod Coan, Linda K. Coffin, Jonathan L. Cohen, Kim […]

Donna Williams receives Gloria White service award

Gloria White award-winner Donna Williams has been a “steadying hand” for the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. Williams was recognized with the Gloria W. White Distinguished Service Award in a May 24 ceremony in Edison Theatre on Staff Day. Throughout Staff Day, WUSTL employees were recognized for their years of service to the university, their athletic prowess, and their luck,
Business & Entrepreneurship

New Associate in Training Program offered at School of Law this summer

Washington University School of Law has developed a new summer course, the Associate in Training (AIT) Program, which focuses on advanced lawyering skills training and professional skill development. “The goal of the AIT Program is to give law students an opportunity to improve their practical skills and knowledge of a variety of types of law firm settings,” says Tomea Mayer Mersmann, JD, associate dean for strategic initiatives. 

Notables

Of note Dewey Holten, PhD, professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, and Christine R. Kirmaier, PhD, research associate professor of chemistry, have received a five-year, $894,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Primary Electron Transfer Processes in Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Centers.” … Jason C. Mills, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pathology […]
Medicine & Health

Platypus hunter studies the bizarre mammal’s venom

When she was a child “in the land Down Under,” Camilla Whittington’s dad decided it would be fun for them to go look for platypuses. These animals, found only in Australia, are technically mammals, yet they are like no other mammals around – sure, like all mammals, they produce milk for their babies, but they also lay eggs and have a bill like birds do, and, most oddly, the males shoot venom from spurs in their hind legs that causes pain even the strongest painkillers can’t alleviate.  
Arts & Culture

Film vs. photography at Kemper Art Museum

Film and photography are in many ways defined by the tensions between them: narrative vs. static, still vs. moving images. This summer, in conjunction with the exhibition Focus on Photography, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present a pair of feature-length films, Andy Warhol and In the Land of the War Canoes, that highlight connections between the two media.
Medicine & Health

Bone drug suppresses wandering tumor cells in breast cancer patients

The bone-strengthening drug zoledronic acid (Zometa) can help fight metastatic breast cancer when given before surgery, suggests research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. When the drug was given along with chemotherapy for three months before breast cancer surgery, it reduced the number of women who had tumor cells in their bone marrow at the time of surgery.