Family Affair screening Nov. 18 at law school
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International cuisine, local flavor
School of Medicine students held an International Food Fair Nov. 12 in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center Atrium for which 10 groups of student chefs prepared dishes from nine world regions and served them to their classmates.
News highlights for November 15, 2010
Yahoo! Canada Global leadership: Voters launch a power surge of women 11/14/2010 The face of global power is clearly changing, and it is looking far more feminine. To understand this shift, you need to go back to a 1995 United Nations’ Bejing conference report calling for governments to restructure their electoral and political party systems […]
Sports update Nov. 15
Sports updates for week of Nov. 15, 2010.
Going where the science takes you
Evan Kharasch, MD, PhD, has been involved in scientific research since high school. An anesthesiologist by training, he is the Russell D. and Mary B. Shelden Professor of Anesthesiology and professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics. Last spring, he also was appointed vice chancellor for research for the university.
Notables
Mark Alford, PhD, professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, is a co-recipient of five-year, $150,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for research titled “Neutrinos and Nucleosynthesis in Hot Dense Matter.” … Brian D. Carpenter, PhD, associate professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $1,980 grant from the Missouri […]
Dancing to a million-dollar milestone
Members of the Alpha Omega Pi sorority let loose on the dance floor in the Field House of the Athletic Complex during the annual 12-hour Dance Marathon Nov. 6. More than 1,000 students from WUSTL and local colleges and high schools helped raise $166,807.65 for the Children’s Miracle Network, bringing the event’s 12-year fundraising total to more than $1 million.
News highlights for November 12, 2010
CNN International / Health.com Aging workforce means dementia on the job could rise 11/12/2010 Given the aging population and the weak economy – which is prompting older people who do have jobs to stay in them – the problem of Alzheimer’s Disease in the workplace is likely to get worse. The warning signs may differ […]
Undergraduate research at WUSTL gets a boost from Amgen Foundation grant
Washington University in St. Louis has received a $1 million grant over the next four years from the Amgen Foundation to provide hands-on laboratory experience to approximately 100 undergraduates through the Amgen Scholars Program.
PAD presents Curse of the Starving Class
The American dream is a fragile thing. Just ask the Tate family, a bickering, dysfunctional clan struggling to retain its dilapidated farmhouse on the edge of an unforgiving Western desert. Welcome to Curse of the Starving Class, Sam Shepard’s bitterly funny — and disturbingly prescient — family drama. This month, Washington University’s Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present the play for five performances in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre.