WUSTL named top entrepreneurship school
Washington University in St. Louis has been ranked
among the top schools in the nation for entrepreneurship by Entrepreneur
magazine’s annual Princeton Review report. The annual survey names the schools with the top 25 undergraduate and top 25 graduate entrepreneurship programs in the nation.
Washington University in St. Louis selected to host Clinton Global Initiative University April 5-7, 2013
Chelsea Clinton announced during the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York on Sept. 25
that Washington University in St. Louis will serve as the host of the
Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U), April 5-7, 2013, on the
Danforth Campus. President Bill Clinton launched
CGI U in 2007 to engage the next generation of leaders on college
campuses around the world. Each year, CGI U hosts a meeting where
students, youth organizations, topic experts, and celebrities discuss
solutions to pressing global issues.
Engineering gets $1.3 million in grants for clean-burning coal technology
A team of engineers at the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University has received two grants totaling more than $1.3 million to develop innovative ways to cleanly burn coal for energy. The awards are part of a more than $5 billion investment strategy by the Obama Administration in clean coal technologies and research and development.
Glassberg family gift establishes an endowed professorship for I-CARES directorship
Himadri Pakrasi, PhD, director of WUSTL’s International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES), has become the inaugural holder of the Myron and Sonya Glassberg/Albert and Blanche Greensfelder Distinguished University Professor.
Intrinsically disordered proteins: A conversation with Rohit Pappu
For 100 years, the dogma has been that amino-acid sequences determine protein folding and that the
folded structure determines the protein’s function. But
as a Washington University in St. Louis engineer explains in the Sept. 20 issue of Science, a
large class of proteins doesn’t adhere to the structure-function paradigm.
Called intrinsically disordered proteins, these proteins fail fold either in
whole or in part and yet they are functional.
New Discovery Competition offers $25,000 prize to undergraduates for innovative ideas
Washington University undergraduate students with
great solutions to problems can win $25,000 to take their innovative
ideas from concept to their own business. The School of Engineering & Applied Science has launched the Discovery Competition with the goal to promote new and innovative discoveries to solve challenges or needs.
WUSTL students return from studying biofuels in Brazil
This summer, WUSTL students participating in the International Experience in Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering went to Brazil to study its booming biofuel industry. Applications now are being accepted for next year’s trip to Australia. The topics to be studied are coal, coal-seam gas, wastewater treatment, biofuels and the geothermal industry.
Design, innovate and disrupt are keys to new interdisciplinary courses
Two new interdisciplinary exective education courses bring together experts from across the Danforth Campus to explore emerging concepts that will impact the future of industries, economies and the environment. The two-day and three-day seminars will take place near the end of October.
Wang receives $3.8 million NIH Director’s Pioneer Award
Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering has received an National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award to explore novel imaging techniques using light that promise significant improvements in biomedical imaging and light therapy.
Center for Biological Systems Engineering kicks off with symposium
Researchers from the new interdisciplinary Center for Biological Systems Engineering at Washington University will host its inaugural symposium, sponsored by Lockheed Martin, from 8 a.m.-3:45 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7, in Whitaker Hall, Room 100. Rohit V. Pappu, PhD, professor of biomedical engineering, directs the new center. Lockheed Martin is sponsoring the symposium.
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