The small increase in take-home pay that began in April 2009 through the Making Work Pay Credit (MWPC) could mean an unexpected bump in your tax bill says Cheryl Block, tax law expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. The problem, according to Block, is that the Treasury Department’s new withholding tables do not take several individual employment circumstances into account. Some joint filers, college students and retirees, among others, may end up repaying all or part of the credit this tax season.
Citing the William T. Kemper Foundation and the Kemper family as among Washington University’s strongest supporters, Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced the foundation’s gift of $3 million.
The face of America is changing rapidly, and Kip Fulbeck hopes that this change will lead Americans to explore the meaning of racial identity and challenge old ethnic stereotypes. Fulbeck will offer his insights at the Assembly Series program, “What Are You? The Changing Face of America,” at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 2, in Graham Chapel.
Gaylyn Studlar, Ph.D., director of the Program in Film and Media Studies in Arts & Sciences, has been named the David May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities. Studlar has written widely on the representation of gender in film, film genres, trans-media practices in popular culture and American film history, especially from the 1910s through the 1950s.
Robert K. Jackler, M.D., the Sewall Professor and Chair of otolaryngology and associate dean at Stanford University School of Medicine, has gathered advertisements using doctors to promote cigarettes into an exhibit that will be on display in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center and the Bernard Becker Medical Library beginning Monday, March 1 through Friday, April 30. He also will give a free, public lecture at noon Tuesday, March 9, in Connor Auditorium.
Anthropology professors Peter Benson and Carolyn Sargent will travel to Washington, D.C., Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 23 and 24, to speak with U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan of Missouri about the recently convened Healthcare Reform Task Force and new ways to link academic research and policy development.
Students from several St. Louis and University City schools have been guests on the Danforth Campus the past few weeks as part of programs to enrich educational experiences for area schoolchildren. Activities included musical, theatrical and dance performances, interactive lectures, tours and visits to exhibitions on campus.
Orthopedic surgeons from the School of Medicine operated Feb. 19 to save the leg of 11-year-old Jean Patrickson, who survived the earthquake in Haiti and was flown to St. Louis for treatment.
Of note Eugene M. Oltz, Ph.D., professor of pathology and immunology, has received a two-year, $418,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research titled “Long-Range Genetic and Epigenetic Control of Igh Gene Assembly.” … Yoram Rudy, Ph.D., the Fred Saigh Distinguished Professor and director of the Cardiac Bioelectricity and Arrhythmia […]
