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HEARD ON CAMPUS
“The U.S. was the first country to send a message to the world on transparency and bribery. Where the rule of law is weak, innovation is snuffed out by criminality and corruption. Where it is strong, wealth is created. Businesses must know that they are protected, but flawed legal systems in developing nations make it impossible to succeed. One of the lessons America has learned in Iraq and Afghanistan is that entrenching long-term stability in a country requires the creation of an efficient system of justice and governance based on the rule of law. That is why today America has many civilian teams, which include lawyers, to train judges and prosecutors on the ground in these countries.”
~ His Excellency Ambassador Louis Susman, U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, during his address, “The Enduring Value of the Rule of Law,” as part of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute’s Speakers Series, on September 13 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom
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KUDOS:
Steven Strasberg,
MD, the Pruett Professor of Surgery in 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. |
Henry L. “Roddy” Roediger III,
PhD, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences, has received the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science. Roediger is an internationally renowned scholar of human memory.
David H. Gutmann,
MD, PhD, a neurofibromatosis expert at the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, has received the 2012 Friedrich von Recklinghausen Award. The Children’s Tumor Foundation gives the annual award to individuals who have made significant contributions to neurofibromatosis research and clinical care. |
Jennifer R. Smith,
PhD, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, is one of eight U.S. citizens selected to go abroad in 2013 as an Eisenhower USA Fellow. Smith will spend a month in India next summer on an intensive individualized professional program. |
Elizabeth Phillips,
a 2012 summa cum laude graduate of the School of Engineering & Applied Science with a degree in biomedical engineering, was named the 2012 NCAA Woman of the Year. Phillips is one of the most decorated student-athletes in Washington University history. |
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Wayne M. Yokoyama,
MD, the Sam J. Levin and Audrey Loew Levin Professor of Research and professor of medicine and pathology and immunology in the School of Medicine, and Charles F. Zorumski, MD, the Samuel B. Guze Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology and head of the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine, have been elected to the Institute of Medicine, a part of the National Academy of Sciences. Membership in the organization is one of the highest honors physician-scientists in the United States can receive.
Panos Kouvelis,
PhD, the Emerson Distinguished Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management at the Olin School of Business, has been named to the U.S. Commerce Department’s new Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness.
Ralph G. Dacey Jr.,
MD, the Henry G. and Edith R. Schwartz Professor and head of the Department of Neurosurgery in the School of Medicine, was the honored guest at the annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS). Dacey presented four lectures during the meeting, which drew approximately 3,000 neurosurgeons and associated healthcare professionals.
Ross Brownson,
PhD, professor of medicine and social work, has been named president-elect of the American College of Epidemiology. He will serve in the position for one year and then become president.
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University News
Washington University has announced a major, multi-year fundraising initiative, called Leading Together: The Campaign for Washington University, to build on its strong history and further evolve the university’s global leadership. Leading Together will focus on enhancing the university’s impact in four key areas: preparing the leaders of tomorrow, advancing human health, inspiring innovation and entrepreneurship, and enhancing the quality of life. ... more
Andrew and Barbara Taylor and the Crawford Taylor Foundation, the charity of the entire Jack C. Taylor family, have committed $20 million to the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine to advance the science underlying the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric illnesses. ... more
Asphalt is at once omnipresent and overlooked. It shapes our cities and enables our highways, yet remains largely in the background of our environmental perceptions. Last fall, students from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ newly created Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) program sought to examine this most mundane of materials through the lens of surface parking. Students designed and installed Parking Plot, a cleverly subversive experiment that aims to reinterpret asphalt and broader notions of just what constitutes “urban nature.” Now, Parking Plot is one of two projects with ties to the Sam Fox School included in the U.S. Pavilion of the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale — arguably the profession’s leading international showcase. ... more
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Research
This artist’s conception of a planetary smashup whose debris was spotted by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope three years ago gives an impression of the carnage that would have been wrought when a similar impact created Earth’s moon. A team at Washington University in St. Louis has uncovered evidence of this impact that scientists have been trying to find for more than 30 years.
PHOTO: NASA/JPL-Caltech
It’s a big claim, but Washington University planetary scientist Frédéric Moynier says his group has discovered evidence that the moon was born in a flaming blaze of glory when a body the size of Mars collided with the early Earth. The evidence might not seem all that impressive to a nonscientist: a tiny excess of a heavier variant of the element zinc in moon rocks. But the enrichment probably arose because heavier zinc atoms condensed out of the roiling cloud of vaporized rock created by a catastrophic collision faster than lighter zinc atoms, and the remaining vapor escaped before it could condense. ... more
Hailed by some as the “end of race as we know it” and the beginning of a “post-racial” America, the 2008 election of Barack Obama sparked a measurable bump in feelings of political empowerment among black Americans. But those sentiments have faded considerably over the last year or so, according to a new analysis of political survey data, with the sharpest declines in perceived political power coming from blacks who identify themselves as conservatives or “born again” Christians. “The election of a black American to the U.S. presidency did seem to empower African Americans, causing an increase in levels of perceived freedom,” writes James L. Gibson, PhD, the Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government and professor of African and African-American studies at Washington University. ... more
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have found a key difference in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease and those who are cognitively normal but still have brain plaques that characterize this type of dementia. “There is a very interesting group of people whose thinking and memory are normal, even late in life, yet their brains are full of amyloid beta plaques that appear to be identical to what’s seen in Alzheimer’s disease,” says David L. Brody, MD, PhD, associate professor of neurology. “How this can occur is a tantalizing clinical question. It makes it clear that we don’t understand exactly what causes dementia.” ... more
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Features
This carved alabaster found in the burial chamber caused archaeologists to conclude the tomb was that of Lady K'abel.
PHOTO: El Peru Waka Regional Archaeological Project
Archaeologists in Guatemala have discovered the tomb of Lady K’abel, a seventh-century Maya Holy Snake Lord considered one of the great queens of Classic Maya civilization. The tomb was discovered during excavations of the royal Maya city of El Perú-Waka’ in northwestern Petén, Guatemala, by a team of archaeologists led by Washington University’s David Freidel, co-director of the expedition. A small, carved alabaster jar found in the burial chamber caused the archaeologists to conclude the tomb was that of Lady K’abel. ... more
A scat-sniffing dog by the name of Pinkerton may be the best friend ever for a small, highly elusive group of endangered monkey and gibbon species now scrambling for survival in the vanishing forests of a remote Chinese mountain range. Pinkerton, a high-energy Belgian Malinois, is proving to be a critical player in research aimed at preserving both the black-crested gibbon and the Phayre’s leaf monkey, says Joseph Orkin, a graduate student in anthropology now studying the endangered primates for a doctoral dissertation in Arts & Sciences at Washington University. ... more
Lift Kenyans out of poverty through access to adequate, clean water. Feed the malnourished in Haiti. That’s the promise of Janji: Run for Another, a socially conscious running apparel company founded by Dave Spandorfer, LA 11, and Mike Burnstein, LA 12, while they were undergraduates. Varsity runners while at Washington University, Spandorfer and Burnstein fashioned the idea that has become Janji on a bus trip to the 2010 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships. ... more |
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