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HEARD ON CAMPUS
"Art is indestructible."
~ Steven Galloway, author of the Freshman Reading Program novel The Cellist of Sarajevo, in his Assembly Series talk in College Hall on September 12
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KUDOS:
Jeffrey I. Gordon,
M.D., has been awarded the 8th Danone International Prize for Nutrition in recognition of his outstanding contributions to scientific research on the human gut microbiome, diet and nutritional status. The international prize is awarded every two years by the Danone Institute International, a non-profit that supports research to promote human health by developing and spreading knowledge about nutrition, diet and health. |
Adam Hasz,
a senior majoring in environmental studies in Arts & Sciences, was selected as one of the nation’s top rising young leaders in the clean energy sector by Focus the Nation, a national nonprofit that supports those launching careers that accelerate the transition to clean energy.
Ronald Levin,
J.D., the William R. Orthwein Distinguished Professor of Law, was recently named the 2011 Volunteer of the Year by the Administrative Law Section of the American Bar Association (ABA). Levin has served as the section’s chair and as the ABA’s adviser to the drafting committee to revise the Model State Administrative Procedure Act.
Lan Yang,
Ph.D., assistant professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, was one of 94 researchers to receive the Presidential Early Career Ward for Scientists and Engineers from President Obama. The award is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. |
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University News
Part of the International Experience is immersion in the host culture. Here, Washington University students and students from Chinese University of Hong Kong practice their chopstick skills by trying to pick up green marbles.
This summer students participating in the McDonnell Academy Global Energy and Environmental Partnership (MAGEEP) International Summer Experience traveled to the Shenzhen-Hong Kong metropolitan area to learn about alternative energy research and practice, but also to explore the festivals, museums and food of another culture. The International Experience in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering allows undergraduates to study energy science at top universities in another country. ... more
The undergraduate and graduate programs in entrepreneurship at Washington University have been recognized as among the top 10 in the United States for the second year in a row by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine survey of more than 2,000 schools. The annual ranking cites the nation’s top 25 undergraduate and top 25 graduate programs for entrepreneurship. Washington University’s undergraduate program was ranked No. 6, up three spots from last year’s ranking, and the graduate program ranked No. 6, up four spots from last year. ... more
A dedication ceremony for Preston M. Green Hall, a new engineering building on the Danforth Campus, was held Friday, Sept. 23. The keynote speaker at the dedication was Charles M. Vest, Ph.D., president of the National Academy of Engineering and president emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Vest listed important innovations of our time that have come primarily, and in some cases exclusively, from our research universities: computing, the laser, the internet, numerically controlled machinery, the fundamentals of the GPS system, the deployment of the World Wide Web, the genomic revolution and most of modern medicine. ... more
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Research
The Mars rover Opportunity still going after all these years.
PHOTO: NASA
Shortly after Labor Day 2011, the Mars rover Opportunity was poised on the rim of the 22,000 meter-wide Endeavour Crater, preparing to sample a novel rock type. Much older than the sedimentary samples the rover has “tasted” so far, this new sample is flush with the promise of revealing clues to the planet’s environment when running rivers coursed the surface. What was supposed to have been a 90- to 180-day exploration of two distinct regions of the red planet has turned into a saga that has become one of science’s most compelling and long-lasting adventures (now into its eighth year), enthralling the public and the science communities alike. ... more
A new study by a finance professor at the John M. Olin School of Business finds that the amount of stock options in a CEO’s compensation package can result in an increase in risk-taking by company leaders. Such a finding seems obvious at first blush, but uncovering clean empirical evidence always has been elusive, says Todd A. Milbourn, Ph.D., the Hubert C. and Dorothy R. Moog Professor of Finance at Olin. ... more
One of the most promising markers of Alzheimer’s disease, previously thought only to be inside nerve cells, now appears to be normally released from nerve cells throughout life, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine. Scientists found evidence in mice that healthy brain cells regularly secrete tau protein into surrounding brain fluids. Before now, the major known role for tau in healthy biology was as a component of the cytoskeleton, or railroad tracks that allow for the transport of material inside cells in the central nervous system. ... more
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Features
Lillie Velma Pearson opened Tillie’s Food Shop at the corner of Garrison and Sheridan avenues in the north St. Louis neighborhood of JeffVanderLou in 1948 at a time when black St. Louisans were kept out of white institutions and forced to create their own spheres of commerce, entertainment, religious and cultural life.
PHOTO: Courtesy photo
Students in a service-learning course in the Department of History in Arts & Sciences are working on an application to get the grocery store and its adjacent buildings — better known as “Tillie’s Corner” — on the National Register of Historic Places. The class, “Building St. Louis History: The City and Its Renaissance,” is taught by Sonia Lee, Ph.D., assistant professor of history. ... more
Americans are remaining in the workforce longer and many are changing or advancing their careers well past age 40. “With this trend toward working longer, educational institutions have been trying to figure out their role in keeping up with the needs of our aging society,” says Nancy Morrow-Howell, Ph.D., the Ralph and Muriel Pumphrey Professor of Social Work at the Brown School. The Brown School decided to study the experiences of their students who came to get their MSW after the age of 40. The survey focuses on pathways to graduate school, their experience in the classroom as well as field, and their post-MSW careers. Morrow-Howell says that these results can be applied to other graduate programs, particularly in fields that may face labor shortages in the future, such as education, health and social services. ... more
State-sponsored college savings plans, often called 529 plans, offer tax incentives to facilitate saving for postsecondary education. Low- and moderate-income families are less likely to have college savings than higher-income families. To address this inequity, a number of states have launched 529 savings match incentive programs. A report recently released by the Center for Social Development examines the program design of all state 529 savings match programs and offers recommendations aimed to facilitate access, increase program participation and perhaps reduce administrative costs. ... more
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