Pilot Project Awards given by aging center
Center for aging bestows Pilot Project Awards
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Teaching (by) design Visual communications majors tutor aspiring artists
Nationally speaking, high school-level courses in graphic design, as opposed to general art or special projects such as yearbooks or student newspapers, are surprisingly rare. So when venerable University City High School, 7401 Balson Ave., launched a new graphics class last year, a group of visual communications majors from Washington University’s School of Art readily agreed to help tutor students in the fledgling program.
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New care coordination plan unveiled by benefits
Plan will help multiple health-care providers work in harmony, and ensure doctors’ orders are followed.
New FCC media ownership rules; ‘gains’ must offset ‘collusion,’ expert says
MoretonThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted June 2 on the most significant overhaul of media ownership rules in decades, including a change that allows television networks to own more local stations. The new rule loosens the national television network ownership cap — raising the number of viewers the networks can reach to 45 percent from 35 percent of the nation’s viewers. Patrick Moreton, Ph.D., a professor of organization and strategy at the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, says that the changes are in a very real sense, a “catch-up exercise,” forced on it by changes in the technology used to produce and deliver entertainment and news.
Mouse model offers new explanation for kidney disease and failure
Rendering of a human kidney”Most experts believe that kidney disease is caused by an immune response against the kidney,” explains principal investigator Andrey S. Shaw, M.D., professor of pathology and immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. “But our evidence suggests that defects that are intrinsic to the kidney also contribute to kidney failure.”
Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis recognizes five alumni
Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis recognized the achievements of five of its alumni at a ceremony and reception May 16 in the Arts & Sciences Laboratory Science Building on campus.
Bender and Woolsey receive Guggenheim fellowships
Carl M. Bender, Ph.D., and Thomas A. Woolsey, M.D., professors at Washington University in St. Louis, have been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Bender and Woolsey are among 184 U.S. and Canadian Guggenheim fellows selected this year from more than 3,200 applicants for awards totaling $6,750,000. Guggenheim fellows, which include artists, scholars and scientists, are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment.
Volunteers help sharpen skills
WUSTL photo servicesNancy Meister has lunch with Worawan Arparatana as part of the Speak English With Us program
Evolutionary biologist: race in humans a social, not biological, concept
TempletonThe notion of race in humans is completely a social concept without any biological basis, according to a biologist at Washington University in St. Louis. There are not enough genetic differences between groups of people to say that there are sub-lineages (races) of humans, said Alan R. Templeton, Ph.D., professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. On the other hand, there are different races in many other species, including chimpanzees, our closest evolutionary relatives. Templeton was part of a recent St. Louis panel discussion that previewed the first episode of the National Public Television’s “Race: The Power of an Allusion” series running nationally on May 4, 11, and 18 (check local stations for times).