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HEARD ON CAMPUS
"The materials have been touched by a thousand hands. If you build it right, you will feel a big change in your heart. If tradition is just preserved, that means it has died. Real tradition exists when the values and feeling are still alive."
~ Wang Shu, the first Chinese citizen to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture’s highest honor, during his Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Public Lecture Series Talk talk in Steinberg Auditorium on February 29, 2012
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KUDOS:
Kunal Agrawal,
Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science & engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, has won a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER award) from the National Science Foundation. The awards are given “in support of the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization” with the goal of “building a firm foundation for a lifetime of integrated contributions to research and education.”
Tyler Jackson,
a senior biology major from Silver Spring, Maryland, became the first male athlete in Washington University history to win an indoor national title, and just the fourth student-athlete in men’s program history to win an individual national title when he won the 60-meter hurdles in a Bears’ record time of 7.93 seconds at the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championship at Grinnell College on March 10. |
Susan E. Mackinnon,
M.D., chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine, is one of three U.S. physicians to be honored with a Clinical Excellence Award by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., which publishes America’s Top Doctors and other guides to choosing physicians. She received the award March 26 in New York.
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University News
The proposal includes 20,000 square feet of mixed-use retail space to be located along Delmar Boulevard west of Eastgate Avenue.
Washington University is proposing an $80 million investment in retail and student apartments in the Parkview Gardens neighborhood, located along the Delmar Loop in both University City and St. Louis. The investment comes after the area was identified by two significant community studies — the Parkview Gardens Sustainability Plan and the Delmar Loop Area Retail Plan & Development Strategy — as a prime location for retail along Delmar and higher-density multi-family housing. ... more
Research by Washington University anthropologist Crickette Sanz, Ph.D., and colleague David Morgan, Ph.D., has spurred the Republic of Congo to enlarge its Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park boundaries to include the Goualougo Triangle. The Goualougo Triangle is a remote, pristine forest that is home to at least 14 communities of “naïve” chimpanzees with little exposure to humans. ... more
Washington University School of Medicine has received nearly $4.2 million from the Alzheimer’s Association to accelerate the launch of the first clinical trials to prevent Alzheimer’s disease before symptoms become apparent. John C. Morris, M.D., the Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker Friedman Professor of Neurology, heads the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer’s Network at the School of Medicine. ... more
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Research
By mapping the evolution of cancer cells in patients with myelodysplastic syndromes who later died of leukemia, Timothy Graubert, M.D., and Matthew Walter, M.D., have found clues to suggest that targeted cancer drugs should be aimed at mutations that develop early in the disease.
PHOTO: Michael Purdy
The diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood cancer, often causes confusion. While some patients can be treated with repeated blood transfusions, others require chemotherapy, leaving some uncertainty about whether the syndromes actually are cancer. Now, using the latest DNA sequencing technology, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine have shown that the blood disease is an early form of cancer with characteristics that are very similar to the fatal leukemia to which it often progresses. And by mapping the genetic evolution of cancer cells in seven patients with myelodysplastic syndromes who later died of leukemia, they have found clues to suggest that targeted cancer drugs should be aimed at mutations that develop early in the disease. ... more
Smoking, the leading preventable cause of mortality in the United States, continues to disproportionately impact lower income members of racial and ethnic minority groups. In a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health, Jason Q. Purnell, Ph.D., assistant professor at the Brown School, looked at how perceived discrimination influences smoking rates among these groups. “We found that regardless of race or ethnicity, the odds of current smoking were higher among individuals who perceived that they were treated differently because of their race, though racial and ethnic minority groups were more likely to report discrimination,” he says. ... more
The prevailing model for planetary accretion, also called fractal assembly, and dating back as far as the 18th century, assumes that the Solar System’s planets grew as small grains colliding chaotically, coalescing into bigger ones, colliding yet more until they formed planetesimals. The planetesimals then collided until they formed planets as varied as the Earth and Jupiter. But not everyone is convinced the model is correct. For the discontents, a new model, offered by Anne Hofmeister, Ph.D., research professor of earth and planetary sciences, and Robert Criss, Ph.D., professor in earth and planetary sciences, presents a different scenario. Their explanation is published in the March issue of Planetary and Space Science. ... more
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Features
The Thomas G. Thompson and the Marcus G. Langseth at the Navy Pier in Guam. The Thompson laid seismic instruments, which are stacked and ready on its deck, and the Langseth then sailed transects over the instrumented area, firing its airgun array and recording the reflections from subsurface rock layers.
PHOTO: Doug Wiens
Seismologists have just returned from a cruise in the Western Pacific to lay the instruments for a seismic survey that will follow the water chemically bound to or trapped in the down-diving Pacific Plate at the Mariana trench, the deep trench to which Avatar director James Cameron is poised to plunge. The work, funded by the National Science Foundation, is being led by Doug Wiens, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary science, and Daniel Lizarralde, Ph.D., of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. ... more
Participating in an online March Madness bracket or fantasy sport league is harmless fun for most people, but for someone with a gambling addiction, it can be a dangerous temptation. “Now, with states entertaining the possibility of increasing revenue through legalizing internet gambling, it is even more important to pay attention to groups that may be vulnerable to problem gambling, particularly youth,” says Renee Cunningham-Williams, Ph.D., gambling addictions expert and associate professor at the Brown School. ... more
Eighteen Washington University undergraduate students had the opportunity to spend their spring break in a unique way — a 10-day immersion in various aspects of the Israeli economy, from innovation to government to high-tech startups. The students are taking a class at Olin Business School called “Business, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Israel.” Half of the group are Olin students; the others come from several of Washington University’s other schools. “This is really a once-in-a-lifetime chance for these young people to get an insider’s view of business and innovation in Israel,” says Steve Malter, Ph.D., assistant dean for student development and strategic initiatives at Olin and professor of the course. ... more
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