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HEARD ON CAMPUS
"You are our superheroes. There’s no stopping how far you can go. You’re more powerful right now than a locomotive. You can leap tall buildings in a single bound. You, the class of 2012, you are Superman!"
~ Mike Peters, Washington University alumnus and creator of the comic strip Mother Goose & Grimm, in his Commencement address to the Class of 2012
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KUDOS:
Douglas W. Carlson,
M.D., professor of pediatrics and director of the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, recently received the Clinical Excellence award from the Society of Hospital Medicine.
Susan E. Mackinnon,
M.D., the Sydney M. Shoenberg, Jr. and Robert H. Shoenberg Chair in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, received the Clinician of the Year award and the Research Achievement Award in Basic Science from the American Association of Plastic Surgeons.
Carl Phillips,
professor of English in Arts & Sciences, has won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry for Double Shadow, his most recent book of poetry, titled Double Shadow.
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University News
Mike Peters punctuated his address by telling the Class of 2012 that they are Superman.
PHOTO: Joe Angeles
Do what you love, and you will find success, said Mike Peters, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and creator of the award-winning cartoon strip Mother Goose & Grimm, during the 151st Commencement ceremony at Washington University. “A bunch of you are going to be lawyers, or doctors, or engineers, or artists,” Peters, a Washington University alumnus, told the approximately 2,700 degree candidates gathered before him May 18 in Brookings Quadrangle on Washington University’s Danforth Campus. “There are some of you — just a few maybe, or maybe larger than that — when you leave here, you haven’t the faintest idea what you’re going to be doing. ... more
The Washington University in St. Louis-Fudan University Executive MBA program, ranked second in mainland China by the Financial Times, will celebrate its 10th anniversary May 25. Established in 2002 at the John M. Olin School of Business, the program was among the first U.S.-China joint MBA degree programs. The Olin Executive MBA in Shanghai now attracts around 75 percent of its students from China and is designed to prepare Chinese professionals for global executive positions. ... more
Washington University School of Law announced it will begin offering its Master of Laws in U.S. Law for Foreign Lawyers (LLM) in an innovative online format. Called @WashULaw, the program is the first and only top-tier online LLM in U.S. Law. The online LLM builds on the law school’s internationally recognized postgraduate law degree program, which is designed for foreign attorneys interested in increasing their knowledge of U.S. law to more effectively practice in today’s global legal environment.... more
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Research
Folic acid fortification of foods may reduce the incidence of the most common type of kidney cancer and a type of brain tumor in children, finds a new study by Kimberly J. Johnson, Ph.D., assistant professor at the Brown School, and Amy Linabery, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota. Incidence reductions were found for Wilms’ tumor, a type of kidney cancer, and primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET), a type of brain cancer. ... more
Women serve as CEOs of just 17 of the Fortune 500 top companies in the United States. PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi has been quoted as saying, “The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.” However, that may not necessarily be happening. Research from Washington University finds that women often do not support qualified female candidates as potential high-prestige work group peers. “My research aims to understand the complicated processes that contribute to the dearth of women in the top tiers of organizations,” says Michelle Duguid, Ph.D., assistant professor of organizational behavior at the John M. Olin School of Business and author of “Female Tokens in High-prestige Work Groups: Catalysts or Inhibitors of Group Diversification?” published in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. ... more
Child abuse and neglect are strong predictors of major health and emotional problems, but little is known about how the chronicity of the maltreatment may increase future harm apart from other risk factors in a child’s life. In a new study published in the current issue of the journal Pediatrics, Melissa Jonson-Reid, Ph.D., child welfare expert and professor of social work at the Brown School, looked at how chronic maltreatment impacted the future health and behavior of children and adults. ... more
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Features
Justin “3LAU” Blau performs for a packed crowd.
Rising senior Justin Blau is on a mission. Blau, a finance major at the John M. Olin School of Business, is more widely known by his stage name, 3LAU. He plans to use his status as a rising star in the electronic music world to raise money for schools for underprivileged children in developing nations. Blau, who was recently named resident DJ at Hard Rock Café Las Vegas and ranks No. 3 on BeatPort’s Top 10 music chart, hopes to take electronic dance music to another level by teaming with his fans to support Pencils of Promise. To learn more about Pencils of Promise and to donate, visit 3lau.com. ... more
At the close of Commencement, graduating seniors were invited to sing Washington University’s “Alma Mater,” a song they likely heard only once before — when they sang it four years earlier at Freshman Convocation. Fortunately, the words were printed on the back of the Commencement program. In three years, it will be rising sophomore Michael Byrne’s turn to graduate, and he intends for the university’s “Alma Mater” to fully resonate with his classmates. Due to Byrne’s successful lobbying efforts, the Graham Chapel bell tower now plays the “Alma Mater” at noon on weekdays. ... more
Health care in America is a vast and complicated system undergoing great change. And while students in the health professions are well-trained in science and clinical medicine, they receive little to no formal education about health care delivery models, insurance, policy or reform — leaving them unprepared for the system in which they will be working for the rest of their lives. Washington University School of Medicine students Elisabeth Askin and Nathan Moore collaborated to produce a clear and concise guide to the U.S. health care system called the Health Care Handbook. The book is a topical overview of the system, aimed primarily at undergraduate and graduate health professions students. ... more
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