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HEARD ON CAMPUS
"For me, the opportunity to tell these stories is really the opportunity to remind us of our shared humanity. My goal has been to capture that humanity in stories, and hopefully teach people that diversity isn’t really about difference, but really, diversity is kind of about what we share, what we all do in our own different ways"
~ Soledad O'Brien, host of CNN’s “In America,” during her Assembly Series talk, titled “State of Race: On TV, Behind the Scenes and in Our Lives,” in Graham Chapel on April 5
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KUDOS:
James E. McLeod,
vice chancellor for students and dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, received a 2011 Coro Leadership Award during Coro’s Leadership Awards Celebration. Coro is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving civic engagement through nationally recognized training emphasizing experiential learning. The award honors community members who exemplify what it means to live Coro’s mission as engaged and responsible citizens and effective civic leaders. |
The Master of Science in Finance program
in the John M. Olin School of Business was ranked #2 in the U.S. and among the 20 best in the world by The Financial Times. Peter Ruger,
senior lecturer in law, has been awarded a life membership by the Board of the National Association of College & University Attorneys (NACUA). The award recognizes “outstanding service and substantial contributions to the Association.” Ruger previously received the NACUA’s Distinguished Service Award. |
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University News
Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton (front left) and Fudan University President Yuliang Yang (right) shake hands at Harbison House April 9 after signing papers creating a working agreement between the two schools.
PHOTO: Sid Hastings
The Brown School at Washington University recently launched a formal alliance with Fudan University, one of the leading universities in China. As part of this growing relationship, Fudan and the Brown School will hold a summer institute in Shanghai to develop policy and management skills for the first generation of social work leaders, non-government organization leaders and government officials. ... more
Civic leader, educational pioneer and philanthropist Robert S. Brookings played a pivotal role in the development of what now is Washington University’s Danforth Campus. He also founded the Brookings Institution, which enjoys an academic partnership with Washington University. Brookings recently received two well-deserved accolades: a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame and an address by noted architect and alumnus Eugene Mackey. ... more
Washington University physicians and surgeons at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, including Avihu Gazit, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, collaborated to make several strategic and innovative decisions that led to the first successful use of an artificial lung in a toddler. The treatment is published in The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. ... more
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Research
Scientists from Washington University School of Medicine and Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, are using an advanced brain scanning technique to study soldiers diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury after exposure to a blast.
PHOTO: USMC Lance Corporal Dexter S. Saulisbury
An advanced imaging technique has revealed that some U.S. military personnel with mild blast-related traumatic brain injuries have abnormalities in the brain that have not been seen with other types of imaging. The abnormalities were found in the brain’s white matter, the wiring system that nerve cells in the brain use to communicate with each other. The study is reported in The New England Journal of Medicine by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine and the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany. ... more
How do students learn the skills necessary to work with those who are different from them? How do they come to understand the global ramifications of local actions? How does higher education effectively train this generation for the global workforce? The answers to these questions can be found through international volunteer service, which is increasingly seen at a broad range of institutions of higher education in a multitude of forms. “While it is not new to higher education, international service pedagogy is at the threshold of a new era,” says Amanda Moore McBride, Ph.D., associate professor and research director at the Center for Social Development at the Brown School at Washington University. “We have both the opportunity and responsibility in higher education to support and critically assess the international service performed by our students.” ... more
Picture a menacing drill sergeant, a gory slaughterhouse or a devastating scene of a natural disaster. Researchers at Washington University have found that viewing such emotion-laden images immediately after taking a test actually enhances people’s retention of the tested material. The data psychology researchers at Washington University gathered in recent studies are the first to show that negative arousal following successful retrieval of information enhances later recall of that information. ... more
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Features
Famed mathematician William Chauvenet joined the Washington University faculty in 1859 and later served as the institution's second chancellor.
PHOTO: Washington University Libraries
Early in 2008, amid the myriad items posted each day on eBay, one tantalizing piece popped up: a letter from mathematician and astronomer William Chauvenet (1820–70), who joined the Washington University faculty in 1859. The next day came a second, then a third — and soon 16 complete and two partial letters were for sale. It was a breathtaking collection of correspondence to and from Chauvenet, who served as the University’s second chancellor from 1862 to 1869. ... more
AARP’s ambiguous statements about Social Security benefit cuts have led to a public roasting of the organization for caving into public pressure, says Merton C. Bernstein, LLB, a nationally recognized expert on Social Security and the Walter D. Coles Professor Emeritus at Washington University School of Law. “Whatever stance AARP has taken, it does not provide ‘cover’ for the Obama Administration to agree to cut benefits now, soon or in the future. If AARP does not vigorously and clearly repudiate what some see as willingness to accept benefit cuts, AARP will be the loser.” ... more
For all the searching an archaeologist does for clues to past human societies, says anthropology and environmental studies Professor T.R. Kidder, Ph.D., “sometimes, sites find you.” Like the time in 1989, when a forester in Louisiana phoned Kidder, an authority on Mississippi basin geoarchaeology, to say he’d just climbed a lone hill in an alluvial lowland where no hills should be. This discussion contributed to Kidder’s research focus on mound societies for some 10 years. Another site found him several years ago, through an invitation of an esteemed Chinese researcher, and now Professor Kidder is helping uncover the wonders of a remote farming village buried by the Yellow River some 2,000 years ago. ... more
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