Join Great American Smokeout events Nov. 19 at medical school
The Great American Smokeout events will be Nov. 19 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center and in the Center for Advanced Medicine.
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Panel to discuss choices for women Nov. 17
Women undergraduate and graduate students can discuss post-graduation choices and how to attain a successful, fulfilling life at “Composing a Life” from 6-8 p.m. Nov. 17 in the Whitaker Hall Auditorium. The discussion, hosted by the Women’s Society of Washington University, will feature five women with career experience in an array of fields from graphic […]
Meyers named Williamson Chair in Cardiothoracic Surgery
Bryan F. Meyers, M.D., has been named the Patrick and Joy Williamson Endowed Chair in Cardiothoracic Surgery.
Roger Rees brings one-man show on Shakespeare to Edison
At 8 p.m. Nov. 20 at Edison Theatre, Roger Rees, a 22-year veteran of television, movies and the Royal Shakespeare Company, comes to campus with “What You Will,” a side-splitting one-man-show that combines the Bard’s greatest soliloquies with colorful observations about the acting life and offbeat tales of theatrical disaster.
Center seeks to solve unsolvable problems in medicine
The Center for Innovation in Neuroscience and Technology brings scientists together from different backgrounds to solve challenging medical problems.
It’s in the jeans
Photo by Joe AngelesStephen F. Brauer (left), James M. McKelvey, Ph.D. (center), former dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, and Camilla T. Brauer tour the new engineering building on the Danforth Campus Oct. 30. The 150,875-square-foot building will be called Stephen F. and Camilla T. Brauer Hall and is on schedule to be completed by spring 2010.
Dinosaurs were warm-blooded, new study says
Were dinosaurs “warm-blooded” like present-day mammals and birds, or “cold-blooded” like present day lizards? The implications of this simple-sounding question go beyond deciding whether or not you’d snuggle up to a dinosaur on a cold winter’s evening. In a study published this week in the journal PLoS ONE, a team of researchers, including Herman Pontzer, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has found strong evidence that many dinosaur species were probably warm-blooded.
Looking toward our energy future
Photo by Joe AngelesSteven F. Leer (left), president and CEO of Arch Coal, and Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton listen as Maxine L. Savitz, Ph.D., vice president of the National Academy of Engineering and a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, answers a question from the audience at America’s Energy Future, a symposium to discuss the National Research Council’s roadmap for the country’s energy future.
WUSTL police help ‘warm-up’ St. Louis
The WUSTL Police Department will collect winter coats for disadvantaged St. Louisans to assist the Kurt Warner First Things First Foundation with its annual Warners’ Warm-up coat drive.
Faculty book colloquium to feature Pulitzer Prize-winner
Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist and literary critic Louis Menand will present the keynote address for “Celebrating Our Books, Recognizing Our Authors,” the University’s eighth annual faculty book colloquium, at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, in Graham Chapel.