In its 15th year, the “Work, Families and Public Policy” series, a schedule of Monday brown-bag seminars presented on campus biweekly through Dec. 6 will give faculty and graduate students of St. Louis-area universities an array of opportunities to lunch and learn. The series features one-hour seminars on research interests including labor, households, health care, law and social welfare by faculty from local and national universities.
Architect Julie Eizenberg and visual artist Ann Hamilton will launch the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ fall Public Lecture Series with a pair of talks Sept. 13 and 15.
The Telegraph (UK) Comet impact did not cause mammoths to die out, say scientists 9/5/2010 Scientists recently put forward the idea that a comet was behind the extinctions after tiny crystals of carbon, known as nanodiamonds, were found in 12,900 year old sediment layers. But scientists now claim to have disproved the controversial theory after […]
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have scanned the entire genome of mice for genes that help build photoreceptors, the light-sensing cells of the eye. The results have already helped researchers identify the gene that causes a form of retinitis pigmentosa, a type of inherited blindness in humans.
Down-and-dirty adversity during legal negotiations may be a popular image but mutual fairness is the winner when it comes to satisfactory settlements, according to the research of Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff, associate professor of law.
Marshall Klimasewiski (far right), director of the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, leads a lively discussion in Eliot Hall Aug. 30 of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the Freshman Reading Program book for this year.
Of note Bruce Backus, assistant vice chancellor for environmental health and safety, was named president-elect of the Campus Safety Health and Environmental Management Association (CSHEMA) at the CSHEMA conference in Baltimore in July. CSHEMA is dedicated to continual improvement of environmental health and safety at colleges and universities and provides information-sharing opportunities, continuing education and […]
Inside School Research How about teaching with the test, rather than to it? 09/03/2010 The Department of Education just handed out $330 million in grants to two state coalitions to design the “next-generation” tests of students’ readiness for college and careers. In the latest issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, […]