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HEARD ON CAMPUS
"When people are hungry they tend to be angry…Hunger is really bad and we must absolutely find solutions to fix it."
~ Ellen Gustafson, former U.N. spokesperson for the World Food Program and founder and executive director of 30 Project, during her Assembly Series talk, titled "A New Understanding of Hunger, Obesity and the Food System" in Anheuser-Bush Hall on September 23
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KUDOS:
Timothy Bono,
Ph.D., assistant dean in the College of Arts & Sciences and lecturer in psychology, received a 2011 National Orientation Directors Association Outstanding Research Award for his research on academic performance and college satisfaction. |
Anne Goldberg,
M.D., associate professor of medicine, received the Public Policy Award from the National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention. The award recognizes those whose work promotes policy change in the prevention of heart disease and stroke.
Evan D. Kharasch,
M.D., Ph.D., vice chancellor for research and the Russell and Mary Shelden Professor of Anesthesiology, received the 2011 Excellence in Research Award from the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
Stephen H. Legomsky,
J.D., D.Phil, the John S. Lehmann University Professor in the School of Law, was appointed chief counsel for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, effective October 24, 2011. Legomsky is an authority on U.S., comparative and international immigration; refugee and citizenship law; and policy.
Carl Phillips,
professor of English and of African and African-American studies in Arts & Sciences, has been selected — for the fourth time — as a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry. |
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University News
The Living Learning Center at Washington University’s Tyson Research Center has been certified as a “living building,” one that requires no more energy than it produces, requires no more water than it captures, and produces no waste, but it needed a bit of coaxing to get there.
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education named Washington University the winner of its “Best Lessons Learned Case Study Award” during the AASHE 2011 Conference in Pittsburgh. The award, for the case study, outlined “the mistakes, corrections and lessons learned that ultimately led to successful certification” of Washington University's Living Learning Center at Tyson Research Center as one of the first net zero energy “living buildings.” ... more
Twelve current or former Washington University students have been awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarships to study, conduct research and/or teach English abroad for the 2011-12 academic year. Eight are recently graduated Arts & Sciences seniors, three are Arts & Sciences graduate students and one is an architecture graduate student in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. They are among 1,600 U.S. citizens who will spend a full academic year in a host country through the Fulbright Program. ... more
Washington University, along with two other organizations, is getting behind BioSTL (evolved from the Coalition for Plant and Life Sciences), a new regional organization to champion St. Louis bioscience. The university, BJC HealthCare and the St. Louis Life Sciences Project each have committed $2 million per year for five years to the venture, for a combined total of $30 million. The funding will forward bioscience company creation and drive economic growth in St. Louis. These funds will increase the region’s capacity to support entrepreneurs and launch BioSTL, the next step in St. Louis’ 10-year-old collective effort to increase economic activity in the medical and plant biosciences. ... more
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Research
People head to the beach to escape the stress of everyday life, but a new study out of the Brown School finds that there are peak times to reap the restorative benefit. “Mild temperature days and low tides offer the most restorative environments when visiting the beach,” says J. Aaron Hipp, Ph.D., environmental health expert and assistant professor at the Brown School. “Beachgoers visiting on a day nearly three degrees (F) warmer than average were 30 percent less likely to perceive the beach or coastal park as restorative, compared with those visiting on average or cooler than average days,” Hipp says. ... more
Itching is one of the most prevalent side effects of powerful, pain-killing drugs like morphine, oxycodone and other opioids. For many years, scientists have scratched their own heads about why the drugs so often induce itch while they are suppressing pain. Now researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have shown they can control the opioid-induced itching without interfering with a drug’s ability to relieve pain. ... more
Cultivars of popular ornamental woody plants that are being sold in the United States as non-invasive are probably anything but, according to an analysis by botanical researchers published in the October issue of BioScience. Tiffany M. Knight, Ph.D., associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, and her co-authors at the Chicago Botanic Garden write that the claims of environmental safety are in most cases based on limited demographic evidence — such as seed production — that they may underestimate the plants’ invasive potential. ... more
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Features
Forrest Fulton, visiting assistant professor of architecture, surveys “Learning Landscape,” a 10,000-square-foot “outdoor classroom” for the Patrick Henry Academy downtown. The project is the first to be completed under the auspices of CityStudioSTL, a new community service and outreach program co-sponsored by the Sam Fox School and the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies.
PHOTO: David Kilper
Patrick Henry Academy is a historic elementary school located in St. Louis’ Columbus Square neighborhood. Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church and School is a longtime Hyde Park anchor. Last summer, students and faculty in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts completed design/build projects at both locations under the auspices of CityStudioSTL, a new program offering community engagement and architectural outreach projects throughout the St. Louis area. “This all grew out of a student design-build project,” says Forrest Fulton, visiting assistant professor of architecture, who led the class of 16. “Students met with the principal, looked at case studies, worked on design proposals, and then developed the master plan. ... more
Washington University is one of 32 colleges and universities joining in a national initiative to reduce high-risk drinking on campuses. The participating schools are working together to bring a new, evidence-based approach to an old problem. Through comprehensive evaluation and measurement techniques, The Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking will identify and implement the most effective ways to tackle an issue affecting nearly four out of 10 college students nationally. ... more
Take a walk on the second floor of North Brookings Hall past the Bridge Conference Room, and you’ll see a different take on a familiar face. A painting of Robert S. Brookings, president of Washington University’s Board of Trustees from 1895-1928, arrived in September and now hangs on the west-facing wall. The new portrait was painted in 1905 by noted American Impressionist artist Richard E. Miller and replaced another painting of Brookings in the Bridge Conference Room. ... more
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