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HEARD ON CAMPUS
"I want to highlight what is both confounding and fascinating about the law. The law stands for two quite different ideas. On one hand, the law is an expression of our community’s ideals. The concept of citizenship wouldn’t make sense otherwise. Law is also, in essence, a plan to allocate burdens, benefits and authority for implementation. It’s messy, and it doesn’t always work. It is a map to the compromises we accept and the tradeoffs we tolerate."
~ Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Stanford University law professor, presidential advisor and U.S. immigration policy expert, during his talk on "Immigrants, Citizens, and American Public Law," presented September 17 in Anheuser-Busch Hall
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KUDOS:
Washington University's
undergraduate and graduate entrepreneurship programs were ranked number five and number six, respectively, among more than 2000 schools reviewed by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneurship magazine for its annual 2012 survey. |
Daniel Goldberg,
M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine and of molecular microbiology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, is serving as chairman of the Pathogenic Eukaryotes Study Section at the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health. His two-year term began July 1, 2012.
Kathryn G. Miller,
Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences, has been selected as one of 40 Vision and Change Leadership Fellows by the Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (PULSE). Over the next year, the Vision and Change Leadership Fellows will consider and then recommend models for improving undergraduate life-sciences education. The PULSE program is a joint initiative of the National Science Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Institutes of Health.
Lihong Wang,
Ph.D., the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, has received a National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award to explore novel imaging techniques using light that promise significant improvements in biomedical imaging and light therapy. The award supports individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose pioneering — and possibly transforming — approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research. |
Washington University
received the Campus Safety Health and Environmental Management Association “Solutions at Work” Award in July for the university's Emergency Mass Communications Dashboard project. The award recognizes developing programs that solve or improve specific safety problems at colleges and universities. |
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University News
Thomas W. Ferkol, M.D., and a team of diverse researchers from across the university are studying persistent respiratory, sinus and ear infections in children.
PHOTO: Robert Boston
Advances in pediatric care are no longer enough. Today researchers are focused on an even higher goal - discovering cures for the most serious disorders of childhood. The Children's Discovery Institute, a joint initiative of Washington University School of Medicine, is designed to change the way pediatric research is conducted. By funding innovative research and translating discovery into treatment, Institute investigators hope to make significant advances in caring for sick children. ... more
Is it curiosity that drives the graduates of Washington University, or is it the graduates of Washington University who drive Curiosity? Take a close look at the roster of research scientists now immersed in the day-to-day operations of NASA’s latest mission to Mars, and it appears both scenarios are true. Despite its Midwest location, far away from massive NASA mission control centers in Cape Canaveral, Florida, or Pasadena, California, Washington University can boast at least seven graduates — and one current student — now making key contributions to NASA’s current quest to uncover the building blocks of life in the thin red soils of Mars, a mission aptly named “Curiosity.” ... more
Chelsea Clinton announced during the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York on Sept. 25 that Washington University will serve as the host of the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U), April 5-7, 2013, on the Danforth Campus. Building on the successful model of the Clinton Global Initiative, which brings together world leaders to take action on global challenges, President Bill Clinton launched CGI U in 2007 to engage the next generation of leaders on college campuses around the world. Each year, CGI U hosts a meeting where students, youth organizations, topic experts and celebrities discuss solutions to pressing global issues. ... more
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Research
This is a human egg magnified 400 times. Eggs have been difficult to freeze, but a new way of storing and freezing eggs offers a different option to women who want to preserve their fertility.
For some women facing fertility issues, a faster way of freezing and storing eggs is expanding their reproductive options. “Being able to deliver healthy babies from frozen eggs is an important development that is very exciting,” says Sarah Keller, M.D., assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology and head of the egg donor program at Washington University School of Medicine. Until recently, the only method for freezing eggs caused ice crystals to form in the egg. These crystals sometimes destroyed the egg’s structure, making it impossible to create an embryo. ... more
The rare disorder Wolfram syndrome is caused by mutations in a single gene, but its effects on the body are far reaching. The disease leads to diabetes, hearing and vision loss, nerve cell damage that causes motor difficulties, and early death. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine, the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston and the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research report that they have identified a mechanism related to mutations in the WFS1 gene that affects insulin-secreting beta cells. The finding will aid in the understanding of Wolfram syndrome and also may be important in the treatment of milder forms of diabetes and other disorders. ... more
The “No More ‘Too Big to Fail’” rallying cry is unrealistic, says Cheryl Block, J.D., federal taxation, budget and bailout expert and professor of law at Washington University. “When the next really big economic crisis arises, Congress is unlikely to stick to its ‘no bailout’ pledge,” she says. “Political ‘no more bailout’ assertions — even those ultimately included in statutory text — simply are not credible. As much as Congress would like to eliminate any ‘too-big-to-fail’ policy, the reality is that there may — and probably will — come a time when the failure of a particular firm or industry would be so economically devastating that Congress would step in to save it, despite earlier protestations to the contrary.” ... more
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Features
Clara McLeod (right) greets Jane Ervin, the widow of John B. Ervin, after Ervin spoke at the Ervin Scholars Program 25th Anniversary Celebration Banquet, held Sept. 15 at St. Louis Union Station Marriott. McLeod's husband, the late James E. McLeod, founded the Ervin Scholars Program in 1987 to pay tribute to Washington University's first African-American dean, John B. Ervin, Ph.D. Looking on is Fernando Cutz (AB '11), an Ervin Scholar alum.
PHOTO: Sid Hastings
Among the most enduring contributions the late James E. "Jim" McLeod made to Washington University was the Ervin Scholars Program, which he founded in 1987 to attract extraordinary students, foster diversity on campus, and pay tribute to the institution's first African-American dean, John B. Ervin, Ph.D. 25 years later, more than 500 Ervin Scholars alumni and current Ervin Scholars gathered on campus and at the St. Louis Union Station Marriott Sept. 14-16 for a weekend full of events to celebrate the milestone, take stock of the program, and pay tribute to the late Ervin and McLeod. ... more
Britain’s royal family has obtained an injunction against the French magazine Closer to prevent it from publishing topless photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton. “The case would likely come out differently if it were brought in the United States,” says Neil Richards, J.D., professor of law at Washington University. ... more
After serving in the Kenyan army, Region Lenentirim returned to his Siambu herding community with an idea. He had tasted maize in different Kenyan locales and saw people digging in the earth to produce food - an anomaly to the Samburu, who lived off the milk of their cows and goats. So when his newly independent nation began offering private ownership of formerly communal lands, Lenentirim was among the first to apply - despite opposition from community leaders. Ultimately, he won a parcel of 23 acres, which helped him prosper as a farmer, expand his livestock, and take four wives. ... more |
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