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HEARD ON CAMPUS
"So I started thinking, how could I, as one person, make a difference? I don’t have a great education; I’ve never done anything nonprofitable; I don’t have any mentors. But I thought that if I could start with these kids and expand that, and if I could show that you could create a volunteer experience or you could create change as one person somewhere, then that was one place to start."
~ Barton Brooks, founder of Global Colors, an organization that aids in the development of grassroots campaigns using local ingenuity and resources to accomplish specific goals, during his Assembly Series talk titled, “If Someone is Going to Change the World, Why Shouldn’t it be Me?” in May Auditorium on April 14
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KUDOS:
Washington University
has earned a silver rating in the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) inaugural Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System (STARS) program. STARS, which debuted this year, aims to objectively and quantitatively review the sustainability efforts and achievements of colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. STARS is one of the first tools to attempt to holistically measure sustainability efforts on college campuses. |
Robert H. Brophy,
M.D., assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery; Matthew J. Matava, M.D., associate professor of orthopaedic surgery; Jeffrey J. Nepple, M.D., a resident in orthopaedic surgery; and Rick W. Wright, M.D., professor of orthopaedic surgery, were presented the NCAA Research Award from the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine for the best paper submitted that pertains to the health, safety and well-being of collegiate student-athletes at the society’s annual meeting July 7-10 in San Diego, California.
Rebecca Dresser,
J.D., the Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law and professor of ethics in medicine, has been appointed to the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee of the National Institutes of Health. The committee serves a critical role in the oversight of federally funded research involving recombinant DNA.
Himadri B. Pakrasi,
Ph.D., the George William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences and director of the International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES), has been named to a 10-member Mentor Committee set up by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to revive Presidency University in Kolkata, India.
Susan Rotroff,
Ph.D., the Jarvis Thurston and Mona Van Duyn Professor in the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, has been named the 2011-12 Norton Lecturer by the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). One of the institute's highest honors, the Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship is awarded to a distinguished archaeologist and eminent scholar chosen by an AIA committee. Rotroff, a member of the Department of Classics in Arts & Sciences, will give lectures to 17 local AIA societies around the United States and Canada during the course of her term.
Kent D. Syverud,
J.D., dean of the School of Law and the Ethan A. H. Shepley University Professor, has been elected chair-elect of the Council of the American Bar Association’s Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. |
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University News
A mother in Kenya weighing her baby as part of the KickStart evaluation.
PHOTO: Michael Galvin
According to the United Nations, nearly 10 million people in Africa are experiencing one of the worst droughts in 60 years. Drought conditions are now leading to famine. Michael Galvin, a second-year student at the Brown School, is in the east African countryside as part of a team testing the effectiveness of KickStart, a social enterprise selling low-cost technologies such as irrigation pumps to help alleviate poverty. Galvin is blogging about the farmers and families he and team members are visiting through stories, video and photos. ... more
The film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s The Help, which opened nationwide August 10, depicts a fictional slice of the 1960s Civil Rights movement. Washington University holds one of the largest archives of civil rights media in the United States, thanks to the Henry Hampton collection and Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965, a six-episode documentary on the American civil rights movement. Since receiving a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in April 2011, Washington University has been in the process of preserving the acetate-based film used in Eyes on the Prize. ... more
The Sukkah is an ancient yet ephemeral form of architecture. In Jewish tradition, these small temporary structures — places to share meals, entertain, sleep and rejoice — are erected each autumn during the weeklong holiday of Sukkot. In October, the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, in partnership with St. Louis Hillel at Washington University and The Museum of ImaJewnation, will host Sukkah City STL, a design competition and exhibition that reimagines the Sukkah through the lens of contemporary art and architecture.. ... more
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Research
Map of the abundance of the element thorium on the Moon made with data from the Lunar Prospector, a space mission launched in 1998, shows that most of this radioactive element is concentrated in a region on the Moon's near side (left). But there is also a small hot spot called the Compton-Belkovich Thorium Anomaly (labeled C-B in the map) on the side of the Moon that faces away from Earth.
PHOTO: NASA/GSFC/ASU/WUSTL, Processing by B. Jolliff
Analysis of new images of a curious “hot spot” on the far side of the Moon reveal it to be a small volcanic province created by the upwelling of silicic magma. The unusual location of the province and of the surprising composition of the lava that formed it offers tantalizing clues to the Moon’s thermal history. The volcanic province’s very existence will force scientists to modify ideas about the Moon’s volcanic history, says Bradley Jolliff, Ph.D., research professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences, who led the team that analyzed the images. The discovery has just been published in Nature Geoscience. ... more
Post-9/11 disabled veterans furthered their education, improved employment prospects and continued to serve their community through participating in The Mission Continues’ Fellowship Program finds a new study by the Center for Social Development (CSD) at the Brown School. The Mission Continues is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to enable every returning veteran to serve again as a citizen leader. This study is one of the first to focus on the health and psychosocial outcomes of disabled veterans after providing civic service, defined as formal volunteering in a structured program, to nonprofits all across the country. ... more
Every day we make thousands of tiny predictions — when the bus will arrive, who is knocking on the door, whether the dropped glass will break. Now, in one of the first studies of its kind, researchers at Washington University are beginning to unravel the process by which the brain makes these everyday prognostications. While this might sound like a boon to day traders, coaches and gypsy fortune tellers, people with early stages of neurological diseases such as schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases could someday benefit from this research. ... more
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Features
Male collared lizard struts his stuff in an Ozark glade. The males have bigger bodies and heads than the females and bulkier jaw muscles. The orange throat is also a male trait. Males display their throats when they are being aggressive toward other males or when they are attempting to attract females.
PHOTO: Alan R. Templeton
Biologist Alan R. Templeton, Ph.D., fell in love with the eastern collared lizard that lives in the hot, dry Ozark glades when he was 13. By the time he returned from graduate and postgraduate work, 75 percent of the lizard populations had vanished. Over the next 30 years, he reintroduced lizards to three glades and then sought to establish the disturbance regime that had once sustained them by advocating for the highly controversial process of landscape-scale burning. The cover article in the September issue of Ecology celebrates the success of this prolonged effort. ... more
Sales of luxury goods, which analysts say could spike as much as eight percent this year, are soaring thanks to expanding personal wealth in China, says a luxury retail expert at Washington University. “One of the key factors driving global sales of luxury goods is the burgeoning Chinese economy and the concomitant expansion of its affluent classes,” says Martin K. Sneider, adjunct professor of marketing at Olin Business School. ... more
Estate planning with Fido in mind? Better be careful, says a trusts and estates expert at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. The issue has been in the news recently. British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, who died in February 2010, left a sizeable sum of money to his beloved dogs; Trouble, the recently deceased dog of “The Queen of Mean,” Leona Helmsley, famously inherited $12 million. Beyond celebrities, a powerful pet inheritance constituency thrives. Between 12 percent and 27 percent of owners have provisions for their pets in their wills. But what happens to the inheritance when the pet passes? ... more
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