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Village East apartments certified LEED Silver

The Village East student apartment building has received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver rating from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Humanities & Society

Widening racial gap exists in key factors for economic well-being, according to new study

“With President Obama now approaching six months in office, some have suggested that we have gone beyond race as a major dividing line in society. Yet nothing could be further from the truth,” says Mark R. Rank, Ph.D., professor of social work at Washington University in St. Louis. “One of the fundamental fault lines in American society continues to be the ongoing racial disparities in economic well-being.” Using 30 years of data, Rank examined three key factors in attaining economic well-being: owning a home and building equity; attaining affluence and avoiding poverty; and possessing enough assets to survive economic turmoil, or a “rainy day fund.” “The results indicate that within each area, the economic racial divide across the American life course is immense,” Rank says.

NIH grants $19 million to Medical School

School of Medicine scientists received $19 million in grants to study microbes in the human body and determine how they contribute to health and disease.

Helping hands

U.S Airforce Photo/Airman 1st Class Wesley FarnsworthThe School of Medicine donated an MRI machine to aid in research and routine health care in Argentina.
Science & Technology

Physicists help find gamma rays from black hole

An international collaboration of scientists discovers an outburst of very-high-energy gamma radiation from the giant radio galaxy Messier 87, accompanied by a strong rise of the radio flux measured from the direct vicinity of its supermassive black hole. The findings shed new light on the understanding of gamma rays in black holes.

Freund visiting artist announced

Installation artist Allison Smith will serve as the inaugural Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Smith is known for creating large-scale works that critically engage popular forms of historical re-enactment, along with crafts and other traditional cultural conventions, to redo, restage and refigure […]

‘Chance’ exhibit opens Kemper 2009-10 season

Courtesy PhotoThe Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present this fall “Chance Aesthetics,” a major loan exhibition examining the use of chance in modern art. The exhibition is the first of four major shows slated for the 2009-10 academic year.