Safety video focuses on off-campus housing
Washington University recently released an off-campus safety video that offers tips to help students, faculty and staff stay safe while living in and visiting off-campus housing.
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Browner to speak on gender, health and reproduction
Medical anthropologist Carole H. Browner, Ph.D., will speak on “Gender, Health and Reproduction: Transnational Perspectives” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge. The lecture is part of the new Initiative on Gender, Sexuality, and Health.
Researchers discover new way to kill pediatric brain tumors
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown once again that “ready, fire, aim,” nonsensical though it may sound, can be an essential approach to research.
Campus parking solution sought by Olin students
The Danforth Campus has more than 12,000 students, 4,500-plus faculty and staff and 5,168 parking spaces. Teams of Olin Business School students have been crunching the numbers since December in hopes of solving the campus parking challenge and winning the grand prize of $5,000 in the first Olin Sustainability Case Competition. Four teams compete in the final round Friday, Feb. 12.
Talking evolution for the Assembly Series
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Edward J. Larson will present, “From Dayton to Dover: A Brief History of the Evolution Teaching Controversy in the U.S.” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, in Louderman Hall, Room 458. The Assembly Series program is this year’s Thomas S. Hall Lecture.
A circuitous route
Serendipity is a word that Kathleen K. Bucholz, Ph.D., uses a lot as she describes her career path. She didn’t really start out to be a psychiatric epidemiologist or to study how genes and environment intersect to contribute to problems with alcohol. In fact, for much of college, science was an afterthought.
Haiti relief efforts get a hand from the WUSTL community
Members of the WUSTL community are pitching in to help relief efforts in Haiti in the wake of the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake.
Chancellor addresses WUSTL community on financial strengths
Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton addresses the WUSTL community, giving a summary of results of the plan to assure the university’s financial strength and continue its mission of education, research, patient care, and service.
Notables
Thomas J. Hannan, DVM, research instructor in pathology and immunology, has received a three-year, $355,942 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research titled “Mucosal Immune Checkpoints in Chronic Bacterial Cystitis.” … Rakesh Nagarajan, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pathology and immunology, has received a three-year, $106,221 subaward through the University […]
Sports update Feb. 8
Sports update for week of Feb. 8