Children’s Discovery Institute awards new research grants
The Children’s Discovery Institute has awarded 15 new research grants totaling $4 million toward finding cures and treatments for devastating childhood diseases.
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Helping hands
Courtesy PhotoA group of 40 students and faculty from Washington University went to Honduras in January as part of the University’s first trip with Global Medical Brigades.
Training Center selects scholars
The Clinical Research Training Center KL2 Career Development Awards Program has selected its new KL2 Scholars, who will begin July 1.
Steinberg Hall to be rededicated with celebration
Photo by Herb WeitmanHaving undergone a renovation, Steinberg Hall will take the spotlight at a rededication celebration Monday, Feb. 23, that includes renaming Steinberg Auditorium after Etta Eiseman Steinberg (left).
Center for the Humanities announces fourth class of faculty fellows
The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences has announced its spring 2010 Faculty Fellows.
Bernheimer to speak for Writing Program
Fiction writer Kate Bernheimer will read from her work at 8 p.m. Feb. 26 in Duncker Hall, Room 201, Hurst Lounge for the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences’ spring Reading Series. She is the author of a trilogy of novels: “The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold” (2001); “The Complete Tales of Merry Gold” (2006) […]
Asthma drugs need to be maintained for continued benefit
Children whose asthma improved while taking steroid drugs for several years did not see those improvements continue after stopping the drugs, new results from a comprehensive childhood asthma study show. The results come from the Childhood Asthma Management Program (CAMP) clinical trial, in which more than 1,000 children age 5-12 were treated for mild to moderate asthma over more than four years.
Washington
To commemorate the 277th anniversary of George Washington’s birth, Washington University in St. Louis scholars will examine the legend versus the real man, and consider whether the philosophical and moral ambiguities he wrestled with during his lifetime have modern connotations.
Primates evolved to be social, not aggressive Sussman tells AAAS
SussmanPrimates are social animals. But why did they become social and what are the causes for the differences in social structure among various primate species? Robert W. Sussman, Ph.D., professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, addressed those questions and more in his talk “A Comparative Overview of Primate Social Organization” during the 2009 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Feb. 15 in Chicago.
Biologist discusses sacred nature of sustainability
GoodenoughThe hot topics of global warming and environmental sustainability are concerns that fit neatly within the precepts of religious naturalism, according to Ursula Goodenough, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. In addition to being a renowned cell biologist, Goodenough is a religious naturalist and the author of The Sacred Depths of Nature, a bestselling book on religious naturalism that was published in 1998. Religious naturalism neither requires belief in God nor excludes such faith. Rather, the movement is based on what Goodenough describes as “an exploration of the religious potential of nature.”