Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced that WUSTL has received a major commitment from Stephen and Camilla Brauer to help implement the long-range, strategic plan of its School of Engineering & Applied Science.
Disadvantaged and minority populations are more likely to be diagnosed with and die from cancer than other groups in the United States. A five-year, $8.6 million grant to Washington University in St. Louis will explore how improved information and referral systems can help eliminate these disparities.
Dancer, choreographer, and creative/performance artist Liz Lerman, together with WUSTL faculty, will participate in a panel discussion on the intersection of art and community called “Still Crossing: Expressing Identities, Building Communities” for the Assembly Series at 4 p.m. Thursday, October 30 in the Women’s Building Lounge, on the Danforth Campus.
The panel discussion, free and open to the public, includes Sunita Parikh, Ph.D., associate professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, and Robert Hansman, associate professor of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts. Lerman created the dance, “Still Crossing” to address issues of immigration, transition and the meaning of “home” and “community.” Lerman will be in residence at Washington University to restage this now-classic dance for a student performance in December as the end piece of this project (see accompanying announcement for details.)
About one-third of adults in the United States has high blood pressure, but because there are no outward symptoms, many people don’t know they have it. High blood pressure can lead to serious problems such as stroke, heart failure, heart attack and kidney failure. The School of Medicine is hosting free blood pressure screenings and […]
Looking for a graduate degree program that will give you the tools to help make a difference? Attend the Idealist.org Graduate Degree Fair for the Public Good from 5-8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, in the Athletic Complex.
Are you looking for a graduate degree program that will give you the tools to help make a difference? Attend the “Idealist.org Graduate Degree Fair for the Public Good,” from 5-8 p.m., on Oct. 23, in the Athletic Center. The free event, hosted by the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, is dedicated to helping people connect education to a social change career. Members of the University and St. Louis community will be able to meet with representatives from over 50 graduate programs from around the country, learn about different graduate degrees options that are designed to impact the public good and get insights on the application process from graduate admissions professionals.
Dominic ArmstrongTenor Dominic Armstrong will perform an intimate Liederabend for the Washington University Department of Music in Arts & Sciences Oct. 26. The program will feature Romanzen aus Tieck’s Magelone, Op. 33 by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), a set of 15 loosely knit romances that comprise the composer’s only song cycle.
The Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine has awarded the first Jack H. Ladenson Fellowship in Experimental Clinical Physiology to Brian T. Edelson, M.D., Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Ken Murphy, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology. The fellowship was created to honor the many professional and departmental contributions of Ladenson, Ph.D., who […]