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HEARD ON CAMPUS
"I believe you can manage a demanding career and still be a terrific mother. I don’t doubt that any of you, men and women, can handle a lot as you face the world—and boy do we need you."
~ U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, during her talk, titled “Women in the Law and Politics,” on November 21, 2011 in the Bryan Cave Moot courtroom
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KUDOS:
Frédéric Moynier,
assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences, received the 2012 Houtermans Award from the European Association of Geochemstry. The annual award honors a scientist of 35 years and younger (or one within six years of receiving the Ph.D.) for a single exceptional contribution to geochemistry. |
Peter Nagele,
M.D., assistant professor of anesthesiology, received the Theodor Billroth Award from the Aerztekammer Vienna for his research findings on chest-compression-only CPR.
Ravi Vij,
M.D., associate professor of medicine, and Washington University School of Medicine were given the 2011 Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium Center of the Year Award, which recognizes the outstanding efforts of a Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium member institution and its principal investigator in advancing the field of multiple myeloma research and drug development.
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University News
The Curiosity rover, which lifted off November 26, 2011, will arrive at the Red Planet in August 2012. The rover, shown here during testing inside the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, is about the size of a Mini Cooper and weighs roughly five times as much as the Spirit and Opportunity rovers.
PHOTO: NASA/JPL-CALTECH
NASA has announced that Raymond E. Arvidson, Ph.D., the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences, has been selected to be a participating scientist on the Mars Science Laboratory, a mission to land and operate a rover named Curiosity on Mars. Arvidson proposed that he use the rover itself as a terramechanics instrument to learn about Martian soils. He will be using a simulation of the rover and of the Martian terrain to contribute to path planning for the rover and to look for crusted soils created by the modern Martian water cycle. ... more
Washington University Libraries has joined HathiTrust, a partnership of major academic and research libraries to preserve and provide access to the published record in a digital form, announced Shirley K. Baker, vice chancellor for scholarly resources and dean of University Libraries. Washington University, which joined HathiTrust January 1, now is partnering with more than 60 other major academic and research libraries from across the United States and the world in an effort to preserve and share the record of human knowledge.. ... more
A giant experiment is under way at the Tyson Research Center, Washington University’s 2,000-acre outdoor laboratory for ecosystem studies. The experiment, led by Tiffany Knight, Ph.D., associate professor of biology, will test three different variables in 32 glades with the goal of establishing best practices for restoring not just degraded glade habitats but degraded ecosystems in general. The experiment is expected to draw collaborating scientists locally and around the world. ... more
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Research
Scientists have agreed that the tongue can sense five distinct tastes but differed over whether our taste buds can detect fat. New research now finds that the tongue can recognize and has an affinity for fat and that variations in a gene can make people more or less sensitive to the taste of fat in foods.
PHOTO: Pepino Lab
Why do we like fatty foods so much? We can blame our taste buds. Our tongues apparently recognize and have an affinity for fat, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine. They have found that variations in a gene can make people more or less sensitive to the taste of fat. The study is the first to identify a human receptor that can taste fat and suggests that some people may be more sensitive to the presence of fat in foods. The study is available online in the Journal of Lipid Research. ... more
Napoleon Bonaparte, the notoriously “short” French emperor, may have stood only 5 feet 6, but being a powerful military and political leader probably made him feel much taller, suggests a new study by an organizational behavior expert at the John M. Olin School of Business. “Although a great deal of research has shown that more physically imposing individuals are more likely to acquire power, this work is the first to show that powerful people feel taller than they are,” says Michelle M. Duguid, Ph.D., assistant professor of organizational behavior. ... more
Open Streets Initiatives, a movement growing around the United States, open urban spaces normally reserved for cars to people, providing a safe environment for socializing and other activities. The goal of the events is to promote healthy living and community building. Researchers at the Brown School, with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, evaluated the 2011 St. Louis Open Streets Initiative to examine participation in the events. “With more than 1,800 participants in 2011 and leadership from the mayor’s office, St. Louis has the potential to become a model and leader in the Open Streets movement,” says J. Aaron Hipp, Ph.D., assistant professor of public health at the Brown School. ... more
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Features
Washington University M.D.-Ph.D. student Matthew MacEwan recently started his own nanotechnology company, NanoMed LLC, which is developing a synthetic polymer surgical mesh made of individual strands of nanofibers.
PHOTO: Joe Angeles
Matthew MacEwan is no ordinary medical student. The neurosurgeon-to-be, a student at Washington University School of Medicine, also is pursuing a doctorate in biomedical engineering. And at 29, he recently started his own company, NanoMed LLC, aimed at revolutionizing the surgical mesh used in operating rooms worldwide. ... more
The controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is merely an attempt to shore up a dying and inefficient business model, grafted onto an attempt to control the Internet, says an expert on the business of entertainment at the Olin Business School. “It really should be called ‘POBM, for Protect the Outmoded Business Model,’” says Glenn MacDonald, Ph.D., the John M. Olin Professor of Economics and Strategy. MacDonald teaches the popular “Economics of Entertainment” course, which covers the institutions, data, economics and management challenges of the entertainment industry, with emphasis on the music and movie industries. ... more
The U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Hosanna-Tabor v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is an important victory for religious liberty says First Amendment expert John Inazu, J.D., associate professor of law. The case pitted the freedom of a church to select its own leaders against a terminated employee’s ability to bring a disability discrimination claim. ... more
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