Theorist Eric Santner to give lecture
Theorist Eric Santner, visiting Hurst professor in the Department of English in Arts & Sciences, will speak on “The People’s Two Bodies: Modernity and the Endgames of Sovereignty” at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11.
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Volleyball wins Augustana Invitational
Go to BearSports The No. 8 volleyball team swept four matches at the Augustana Invitational Oct. 5-6 in Rock Island, Ill., winning the tournament title. The Bears finished 3-0 in tournament pool play, defeating Grinnell College and Knox College Oct. 5 and Elmhurst College Oct. 6. The team’s undefeated record led to a berth in […]
Reanimating Frankenstein’s creature — and its lessons for medical ethics
As the frightful holiday of Halloween approaches, a physician and ethicist at Washington University School of Medicine would have us asking questions first posed by the teenage author of a timeless scary story: Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. This riveting tale is often portrayed as a horror story of gruesome thrills. However, Ira Kodner, director of Washington University’s Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, thinks Shelley’s seminal novel foreshadows many of the ethical, medical and social challenges our society confronts today.
Susan Mackinnon elected to Institute of Medicine
MackinnonSusan Mackinnon has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors medical scientists in the United States can receive. Mackinnon was honored for her professional achievement in the health sciences.
Children need help to lose weight and keep it off, researchers find
Studying efforts to combat obesity in children, a research team led by investigators at the School of Medicine has found that children who lose weight are able to keep it off more effectively if they participate in a maintenance-targeted treatment program, although the effectiveness of the maintenance program lessens over time. The researchers report their findings in the Oct. 10 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Stenson named Costrini Professor
William F. Stenson, M.D., has been named the Dr. Nicholas V. Costrini Professor of Gastroenterology & Inflammatory Bowel Disease at the School of Medicine. Washington University Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton made the announcement with Larry J. Shapiro, M.D., executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine.
New $10 million MacArthur project integrates law and neuroscience
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is bringing together a distinguished group of scientists, legal scholars, jurists and philosophers from across the country to help integrate new developments in neuroscience into the U.S. legal system. The Law and Neuroscience Project is the first systematic effort to bridge the fields of law and science in considering how courts should deal with new brain-scanning techniques as they apply to matters of law.
New technologies add precision to prostate cancer treatments
An extra degree of precision will be added to radiation treatments for prostate cancer at the School of Medicine following the installation of two new technologies in the Department of Radiation Oncology. The move to adopt these technologies was led by Jeff Michalski, professor of radiation oncology.
A closer look at eating disorders
On Wednesday, Oct. 17, the documentary “Thin” will be shown at 7 p.m. in McDonnell Hall, Room 162, followed by a panel discussion with health professionals. The film is a comprehensive and honest profile of four women struggling with their affliction at an eating disorders treatment center.
What do you believe? Assembly Series wants to know at the Oct. 15 Assembly Series
To explore the state of spiritual life at Washington University, two of its many campus ministers, Rabbi Avi Orlow of Hillel, and Reverend Gary Braun of the Catholic Student Center, will share their beliefs and guide an open discussion for the Assembly Series. The event, free and open to the public, will be held on Monday, October 15 at 4 p.m. in Graham Chapel. Amy Heath-Carpentier, a career development specialist with the Career Center, will moderate.