Democrats’ end-run on health care could escalate Senate parliamentary arms race, expert predicts
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‘Operation Babylift: The Lost Children of Vietnam’ screened at law school March 15
The School of Law is hosting a screening and panel discussion of the award-winning documentary “Operation Babylift: The Lost Children of Vietnam” at 7 p.m. Monday, March 15. Operation Babylift airlifted more than 2,500 Vietnamese orphans out of a war-torn country in 1975 to protect them from the impending threat of the Communist regime. Called one of the “most humanitarian efforts in history,” it was plagued by lawsuits and political turmoil. The event is free, but registration is required.
Graduate students share research projects
Erin Eckstein (center, in blue), graduate student in the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, answers questions about her project “Eating Habits, BMI and Caloric Estimation Among Washington University Undergraduates: An Exploratory Study” during the 15th annual Graduate Student Research Symposium Feb. 27 in the Laboratory Sciences Building.
Students travel the continent to volunteer during spring break
Nearly 200 WUSTL students will volunteer their time throughout the continent during spring break, March 8-12. Dozens of groups of students will travel to places as close as Chicago and as far away as Guatemala City, Guatemala, for service projects ranging from building construction and maintenance to helping at an orphanage.
$9 million research grant awarded to WUSTL Earth and Planetary Remote Sensing Laboratory
Others may know us better than we know ourselves, study finds
Humans have long been advised to “know thyself,” but new research suggests we may not know ourselves as well as we think we do. While individuals may be more accurate at assessing their own neurotic traits, such as anxiety, it seems friends, and even strangers, are often better barometers of traits such as intelligence, creativity and extroversion.
Senior wins Luce Scholarship
Senior Alex Baron, majoring in philosophy-neuroscience-psychology and in political science, both in Arts & Sciences, has won a prestigious Luce Scholarship. He is one of 18 scholars chosen nationwide.
‘Stepping up’ asthma treatment in children leads to improvement
Die Fledermaus opens March 19 and 20
Over the past two decades Jolly Stewart has been a force in St. Louis opera. Friday and Saturday, March 19 and 20, the Washington University Opera will celebrate Stewart’s upcoming retirement with an “all-star” performance of Die Fledermaus, the beloved operetta by Johann Strauss II. The production will feature nine returning alumni — all of whom sing professionally — as well as celebrated baritone Ian Greenlaw, teacher of applied music in Arts & Sciences.
Multiple genes make small contributions to alcoholism risk
A genome-wide study into the genetic roots of alcoholism has identified several areas of DNA that appear to contribute to the disease. But researchers say those genes make relatively modest contributions to overall risk of alcoholism.