Urban Cusp founder and former Washington Post columnist Rahiel Tesfamariam will kick off Africa Week at 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30, in Hillman Hall. Sponsored by the African Students Association, Africa Week explores African education, activism, cuisine and commerce.
Carol Camp Yeakey, a professor of education, of urban studies, of international and area studies and of American culture studies, all in Arts & Sciences, has been named the Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
Raj Jain, the Barbara J. and Jerome R. Cox, Jr. Professor of Computer Science at the School of Engineering & Applied Science, is giving keynote addresses at four conferences in October and November.
The university will celebrate the grand opening of the Gary M. Sumers Recreation Center on Saturday, Oct. 29, with a day of activities and giveaways starting at 9 a.m.
The American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics this month awarded the 2017 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics to Carl M. Bender of Washington University in St. Louis .
A faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis’ School of Engineering & Applied Science has been awarded two separate grants worth a combined $2.5 million to develop better biomedical imaging tools.
Joseph Pangelinan has been named director of cultural awareness and diversity in the Department of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine.
The Commencement Office seeks staff volunteers for the recognition ceremony for December 2016 degree candidates. The ceremony will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, in Graham Chapel. Sign up to help by Friday, Nov. 4.
Washington University in St. Louis is part of an alliance of Missouri institutions of higher education that recently received a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund efforts to more than double underrepresented minority science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) graduates in Missouri within five years.
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Stanford University report that they have designed small compounds that have the potential to correct the mitochondrial dysfunction that leads to Charcot-Marie-Tooth and other conditions involving mitochondria.
