Hayes wins American Chemical Society’s 2015 Saint Louis Award
Sophia Hayes, PhD, professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences at Washington
University in St. Louis, has won the American Chemical Society St. Louis Section’s 2015 Saint Louis Award.
The geography of Antarctica’s underside
Scientists were able to deploy ruggidized seismometers that could withstand intense cold in Antarctica only recently. A line of seismometers strung across the West Antarctic Rift Valley and the Marie Byrd Land have given geologists their first good look at the mantle beneath the ice and rocks, revealing areas of hot rock that might affect the behavior of the overlying ice sheet.
Smelling DNA
What do you do if you are trying to save a very rare and shy animal? How do you even find them? Anthropologist Joseph Orkin, PhD ’14, called in Pinkerton. No, not the detective agency, the dog.
Physicist awarded $1.3 million for development of detectors for hard X-ray telescopes
Henric Krawczynski, PhD, professor of physics in Arts
& Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won a $1.3 million NASA grant to develop semiconductor detectors and their readout electrons for the
next generation of X-ray telescopes.
Mossotti, Ward-Brown win Regional Arts Commission Artist Fellowships
Denise Ward-Brown, associate professor in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, and poet Travis Mossotti, a grant analyst in the university’s Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, are among 10 recipients of the Regional Arts Commission’s 2015 Artist Fellowships.
Washington University Dance Theatre Dec. 4-6
Michio Ito is the forgotten pioneer of American modern dance. Yet Ito’s influence will be on full display Dec. 4-6 when “Pavane,” a tribute choreographed by his niece, Taeko Ito, is featured in Washington University Dance Theatre.
Obituary: Douglass C. North, Nobel Prize-winning economist, 95
Douglass C. North, PhD, co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel
Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the Spencer T. Olin Professor
Emeritus in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis,
died Monday, Nov. 23, 2015, at his summer home in Benzonia, Mich. He was 95.
WashU Expert: Who were the Pilgrims?
Who were the Pilgrims? Who were the Puritans? And how did they view Native Americans? As the annual Thanksgiving holiday approaches, Abram Van Engen, PhD, assistant professor of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, discusses the beliefs of the two groups, the differences between them and the theology of sympathy.
One school, 16 languages: How Washington University helped boost scores at St. Louis’ most diverse school
Cindy Brantmeier, PhD, chair of the Department of Education in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and principal investigator in the Language Research Laboratory, provides free professional development to teachers at St. Louis Public School District’s Oak Hill Elementary, where half of all students are learning English. The results are amazing: After posting some of the region’s lowest test scores in language arts, Oak Hill students increased their school’s score by 20 points and it is now fully accredited.
AAAS taps three Washington University faculty as 2015 fellows
Three faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis are among 347 new fellows named by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. David W. Piston, PhD; Shelly E. Sakiyama-Elbert, PhD; and Jeffrey M. Zacks, PhD, will receive the highest honor awarded by AAAS in recognition of their distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.
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