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HEARD ON CAMPUS
"My career journey has been very wild and crazy and zany. It’s important to find a job that you love. For me, it’s been all about being my kind of engineer. Life isn’t always about achieving that [particular] goal—it’s about adapting. You have to roll with the punches and roll with the opportunities that are given to you."
~ Deanne Bell, EN02, American television personality known for PBS' “Design Squad,” Discovery Channel's “Smash Lab,” and National Geographic's "The Egyptian Job,” during her talk on unconventional career paths in the Laboratory Sciences auditorium earlier this year
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KUDOS:
Mary Jo Bang,
professor of English in Arts & Sciences, had her poems “At the Moment of Beginning" and “Practice for Being Empty” published in the Spring 2012 issue of Ploughshares, one of the most prestigious literary journals in the United States. |
David M. Jaffe,
M.D., the Dana Brown Professor of Pediatrics and director of the Division of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine, was installed as president of the Academic Pediatric Association at its recent annual meeting in Boston. Jaffe was chosen to lead the association for the 2012-13 term.
Elzbieta Sklodowska,
Ph.D., the Randolph Family Professor of Spanish in Arts & Sciences, received an honorary “Profesorado de Honor en Letras” from the Universidad del Norte in Asunción, Paraguay. Sklodowska was presented with this distinction during the international symposium on “La literature paraguaya después de Roa Bastos,” hosted by the Universidad del Norte in Paraguay August 7th-10th.
Gregory A. Storch,
M.D., the Ruth L. Siteman Professor of Pediatrics and professor of medicine and of molecular microbiology, has been named president-elect of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology. |
Steven Strasberg,
M.D., the Pruett Professor of Surgery at the School of Medicine, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award/Gold Medallion of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA) for his numerous contributions to the field of hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery. Strasberg received the award at the 10th World Congress of the IHPBA in Paris on July 4. |
Jay R. Turner,
Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering and director of undergraduate programs in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, has been invited by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to serve on the Science Advisory Board Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards Committee. |
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Wayne Yokoyama,
M.D., the Sam J. and Audrey Loew Levin Professor of Medicine and professor of pathology and immunology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator in Medicine, has been elected to councilor for the American Association of Immunologists for a four-year term.
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University News
The Department of Energy announced August 2 that a team of engineers at Washington University will receive $2 million to design a battery management system for lithium-ion batteries that will guarantee their longevity, safety and performance. This is a particularly challenging project because the electrochemical reactions inside the battery are not easily captured in mathematical form. ... more
The legacy of Jim McLeod, whose goal was for the university to know every student “by name and by story,” will be honored by Washington University with the dedication of McLeod’s Way Saturday, September 15. James E. “Jim” McLeod, vice chancellor for students and dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, died September 6, 2011, after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 67. McLeod’s Way is a new landscaped gathering place that will be located along the path from the newly rebuilt Forsyth Underpass to the Clock Tower on the South 40. ... more
When more than 1,700 new students recently moved onto campus, they had many questions about college life and their new home. Bear Beginnings, a robust five-day orientation program, provided assistance. But, what about after those first five days — when students actually begin navigating the campus for themselves? At Washington University, there is a program designed to extend the orientation experience throughout the first full year. It can be summed up in an acronym: WUSA. ... more
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Research
When the unemployment rate dropped, the economy added more new jobs than expected, home sales inched up, and the Dow soared triple digits. Good news, right? It depends on who’s doing the spinning. President Obama and his allies would certainly tout such numbers as evidence that the administration’s policies are working, and that a recovery is under way. His opponents, however, would point out that unemployment dropped only because discouraged workers – those who have given up looking for jobs – are not included in the count. And home sales? They were inflated by bottom-feeders snapping up foreclosures. As for the stock market, there’s just as likely to be a triple-digit drop. ... more
When it comes to intelligence, what factors distinguish the brains of exceptionally smart humans from those of average humans? As science has long suspected, overall brain size matters somewhat, accounting for about 6.7 percent of individual variation in intelligence. More recent research has pinpointed the brain’s lateral prefrontal cortex, a region just behind the temple, as a critical hub for high-level mental processing, with activity levels there predicting another 5 percent of variation in individual intelligence. ... more
Scientists from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and Washington University have developed a new type of medical imaging that gives doctors a new look at live internal organs. The imaging combines two existing forms of medical imaging — photoacoustic and ultrasound — and uses them to generate a combined high-contrast, high-resolution image that could help doctors spot tumors more quickly.
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Features
Studies routinely suggest that more exercise and lower calorie intake can reduce risk for chronic disease, but some people take that notion much further. They believe that we could live a lot longer if we ate a lot less. For nearly 20 years, a growing number of individuals have been severely restricting their caloric intake with the goal of significantly lengthening their lives. In fact, the Calorie Restriction Society website mentions age 120 as a target. ... more
With all the fanfare about Mars rover Curiosity landing safely on the Red Planet on August 6, it’s easy to forget that there’s already a rover on Mars — an older, smaller cousin set to accomplish a feat unprecedented in the history of Solar System exploration. Raymond E. Arvidson, Ph.D., the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences, is playing key roles in both Mars rover missions. ... more
When Alex Anderson enrolled at Washington University, his future seemed all but sealed. Through hard work and a natural aptitude, he earned A’s in his high school math and sciences courses and scored near the 99th percentile on his SAT exam. For the thrill of the challenge, he spent his spare time solving math-competition-type problems and reading math books. He was just the sort of recruit that science departments hope to pull into their ranks and develop into a future scientist. Anderson, however, felt a bit uneasy about it all. ... more
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