Yearlong STEM teacher education program kicks off second round at WUSTL
Courtesy photoMatthew McCallum (foreground), a kindergarten teacher in the East St. Louis School District, examines a pig heart at the Saint Louis University Surgical Education Center during one of the...
View ArticleEmail privacy a hallmark of a free society
As encrypted email services like Lavabit shut their doors, the importance of email privacy becomes even more clear writes Neil Richards, JD, privacy law expert and professor of law at Washington...
View ArticleWelcome, Class of 2017!
Joe AngelesUpperclass student volunteers (pictured here, at a pep rally Thursday, Aug. 22) help newcomers to Washington University in St. Louis move in and get settled. About 1,600 freshmen moved onto...
View ArticleQ&A: Heather Corcoran on health, wellness and interaction design
There is programming capacity, and then there are the ways people process information. As anyone still convalescing from a software update might tell you, these are not necessarily the same...
View ArticleProgram links researchers, community to improve public health
Jim GoodwinGraduates of the Community Research Fellows Training program celebrate their efforts Aug. 8 during a ceremony at the Eric P. Newman Education Center on the Washington University Medical...
View ArticleWhispers Café now serves frozen yogurt
The newly renovated Whispers Café in Olin Library at Washington University in St. Louis now serves frozen yogurt.This week, the popular coffeehouse debuted cones of Edy's chocolate and vanilla frozen...
View ArticleStudy on health and well-being of African Americans in St. Louis releases...
The first of five policy briefs — the hallmark of an ongoing, multi-disciplinary study titled “For the Sake of All: A Report on the Health and Well-Being of African Americans in St. Louis" — has been...
View ArticleThree medical faculty named Wolff professors
Robert BostonFrom the left, Daniel C. Brennan, MD, Chyi-Song Hsieh, MD, PhD, and Daniel S. Ory, MD, have a laugh while getting their photo taken. The three have been named the Alan A. and Edith L....
View ArticleFall Assembly Series offers intelligent voices on issues of the day
Notes from No Man's Land author Eula Biss visits campus on Sept. 9 to discuss her book, the First Year Reading Program selection. Biss kicks off the fall Assembly Series program schedule.Human health,...
View ArticleFirst day is a blast for first-year students
"Thank you for everything" — Freshman David Aycke, of St. Louis (above) sent this message to his parents before classes on the first day of school Tuesday, Aug. 27. The First Year Center snapped photos...
View ArticlePoet Carl Phillips to read Sept. 5
Carl Phillips. Photo by Joe Angeles/WUSTL PhotosUnafraid is what we were, I think, and then afraid, though it mostly seemed otherwise. I opened my eyes,I saw, I closed, I shut them.-- From...
View ArticleReich named Wells Fargo Advisors Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship by...
Rob Reich, PhD, associate professor of political science at Stanford University, has been named the 2013-14 Wells Fargo Advisors Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship by the Skandalaris Center for...
View ArticleObituary: Victoria "Vicky" Holtschlag, laboratory manager, 58
Holtschlag Victoria "Vicky" Holtschlag, a laboratory manager in Washington University School of Medicine's Department of Pathology and Immunology and at Siteman Cancer Center, died Sunday, June 30,...
View ArticleSolicitor General Verrilli to Deliver Tyrrell Williams Lecture Sept. 9
Donald B. Verrilli Jr., the 46th solicitor general of the United States, will deliver the 2013–14 Tyrrell Williams Lecture at 4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 9, in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom, Anheuser-Busch...
View ArticleIT monitoring effective in deterring restaurant fraud
For many firms, losing significant revenue and profit to employee theft has been a cost of doing business.Pierce But a new study from Washington University in St. Louis finds that information...
View ArticleAging really is 'in your head'
Imai laboratoryNew research has identified the mechanism by which the sirtuin protein Sirt1, shown in green, operates in the brain to delay aging and increase longevity.Among scientists, the role of...
View ArticleAlcohol abuse, eating disorders share genetic link
E. Holland DurandoWashington University researchers have found that some of the same genes likely are involved in alcohol dependence and eating disorders.Part of the risk for alcohol dependence is...
View ArticleWashington University media specialist and LouFest founder Brian Cohen brings...
Local Natives play Sept. 8 at LouFest. Washington University in St. Louis media specialist Brian Cohen teaches WUSTL education students how to use new educational technologies in their classrooms....
View ArticleObituary: Bernard Becker, former head of ophthalmology, 93
BeckerBernard Becker, MD, professor emeritus of ophthalmology and visual sciences at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died at his home Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, after a long...
View ArticleNew Climate Change Initiative to be led by Peter Raven
Washington University in St. Louis is launching a Climate Change Initiative (WUCCI) aimed at expanding scientific research, education and public understanding of global climate change.Raven A signature...
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