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Study focuses on the health and well-being of African Americans
A new comprehensive, multi-disciplinary study titled For the Sake of All focuses on the health and well-being of African Americans in St. Louis. The research findings and a series of related policy briefs culminated in a report and community conference in 2014, coinciding with the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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New Seigle Suite highlights Institute for Public Health’s presence on Danforth Campus
The Institute for Public Health serves as an important bridge across campus, connecting all seven schools to strengthen WUSTL’s impact on public health. Currently, the institute’s sole facility is on the Medical Campus. But thanks to alumnus and university trustee Harry Seigle (AB ’68) (center) and his wife, Susan, the institute soon will also have a home in the new Brown School building, slated for completion next year.
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Toker appointed managing director of Skandalaris
Emre Toker has been appointed managing director of the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. Toker has been an entrepreneurship senior mentor-in-residence at the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management. His appointment is effective Aug. 15, said Provost H. Holden Thorp, PhD.
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First U.S.-India joint EMBA program launches
WUSTL and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay have announced a joint Executive MBA program aimed at the international executive. The new program is the first of its kind to confer an MBA degree from both an Indian and an American university and will be modeled after WUSTL’s highly ranked EMBA in China and the U.S.
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Class Acts: sparking innovation
From starting new businesses to creating new campus traditions to reimagining the urban landscape, WUSTL students have put their innovative ideas into practice. In the third installment of a five-part series, we celebrate graduating students, among them furniture designer Ambika Subramaniam, and their groundbreaking ideas.
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IDEA Labs teams unveil medical innovations
IDEA Labs is a student-run bioengineering design incubator that brings together students from across WUSTL to solve problems in health care with innovative solutions. The interdisciplinary teams presented their prototypes, including this chair for spinal tap procedures, at IDEA Labs’ Demo Day last month.
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Gephardt Institute selects new cohort of Civic Scholars
The Gephardt Institute for Public Service selected eight sophomores for its fourth cohort of the Civic Scholars Program. Civic Scholars enroll in two years of academic coursework related to civic leadership and are mentored to prepare for a life dedicated to public service. They also complete a civic project the summer before senior year.
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Class Acts: achieving excellence
WUSTL students have been recognized across the globe for their accomplishments in science, art, business, medicine, engineering, social work and law. In the second installment of a five-part series, we showcase a sampling of achievements by graduating students, including poet Phillip Williams.
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Wash U student startup Farmplicity finds a buyer
Farmplicity, a Washington University based startup company, is being bought by Sunfarm Food Service.
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Virgil Award winner helps victims — and perpetrators — of domestic violence
Senior Alaina Smith works as a court advocate with the St. Louis County Domestic Violence Court and as a facilitator at RAVEN, a batterer intervention program. Smith is among this year’s Gerry and Bob Virgil Ethic of Service Award winners.
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McDonnell International Scholars Academy students visit New York, meet leaders
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with WUSTL’s McDonnell Academy scholars earlier this month. During a spring break trip to New York, the scholars also met a former Federal Reserve chairman and other leaders in media, politics and finance.
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St. Louis entrepreneur to present at United Nations
Abigail Cohen and Andrew Brimer, co-founders of St. Louis-based startup Sparo Labs, will present at the United Nations headquarters in New York City as part of the Cavendish Global Health Impact Forum in early May.
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Dutia, Grewal Global Impact Award aims to inspire entrepreneurs, innovators
Jas K. Grewal (left) and Suren G. Dutia have established the Global Impact Award in the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. The endowed fund will receive $1 million, and another $25,000 will fund awards made this academic year. The awards will support business ventures aimed at catalyzing social change. Applications are due March 24.
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Nanopore Diagnostics wins Olin Cup
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, antimicrobial resistance is one of our most serious health threats, with infections from resistant bacteria becoming far too common. Part of the problem is over-prescription of antibiotics. The winner of this year’s Olin Cup, Nanopore Diagnostics, hopes to change that.
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Clifford Holekamp
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Holtzman, Bateman to receive chancellor’s
innovation award
David M. Holtzman, MD (left), and Randall J. Bateman, MD, have been chosen as co-recipients of the Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. They will accept the honor during the Faculty Achievement Awards Saturday, Dec. 7. Read More > |
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WUSTL senior named Rhodes Scholar
Joshua Aiken, a senior in Arts & Sciences, was one of 32 Americans chosen Nov. 23 as a Rhodes Scholar. Considered among the world’s most prestigious academic awards, Rhodes Scholarships provide all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England. Aiken plans to study the experience of refugees and asylum seekers. Read More > |
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IDEA Labs bridges medical, engineering gapIDEA Labs bridges medical, engineering gap
School of Medicine faculty recently presented about 20 ideas to WUSTL students during IDEA Labs’ inaugural “Problem Day” in hopes that they might be able to devise solutions. IDEA Labs — or Innovation, Design and Engineering in Action — is a bioengineering design incubator founded last year as a joint venture of the medical and engineering schools and the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences. Read More > |
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Haire-Joshu is named Joyce Wood Professor
Debra Haire-Joshu, PhD, an internationally renowned researcher in obesity and diabetes prevention, has been installed as the first Joyce Wood Professor. This is also the university’s first endowed professorship in public health. Haire-Joshu (left) is pictured with Wood. Read More > |
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With Farmplicity, the farm-to-table movement meets the 21st century
Wouldn't it be great if buying locally farmed food were as easy as clicking "buy now" on Amazon? The creators of Farmplicity think so, too. Read More > |
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Entrepreneurship ingrained in students early
New WUSTL students interested in entrepreneurship had the chance to get their feet wet even before classes began. The IDEA program, from the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, introduces students to WUSTL’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, allowing them to connect with each other and with upperclassmen during a weeklong orientation program. Read More > |
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Medical startup hatched at WUSTL going strong
Andrew Brimer and Abigail Cohen, May graduates of the School of Engineering & Applied Science and co-founders of the med-tech startup Sparo Labs, have won the $150,000 CIMIT Student Technology Prize for Primary Care, bringing their total competition winnings to more than $275,000. Their company aims to help patients more effectively manage asthma. Read More >Read More at St. Louis Business Journal > |
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WUSTL launches climate change initiative,
to be led by Raven
WUSTL is launching an initiative aimed at expanding scientific research, education and public understanding of global climate change. A signature initiative of I-CARES, the project will be led by Peter H. Raven, PhD, the George Engelmann Professor of Botany Emeritus in Arts & Sciences and president emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Read More > |
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Educating public health’s problem-solvers
Widespread social problems are nothing new, yet solutions today require a different, more innovative approach. A new book, Transdis-ciplinary Public Health: Research, Education, and Practice (edited by the Brown School’s Debra Haire-Joshu, PhD, and Timothy McBride, PhD) aims to fill that void, laying out a multidisciplinary approach to problem-solving. Read More > |
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WUSTL biologists aim for farming revolution: plants that make their own fertilizer
Much of modern agriculture relies on compounds called “fixed” nitrogen made by an industrial process developed in 1909. Biologist Himadri Pakrasi, PhD, wants to design a better system. His idea is to put the apparatus for fixing nitrogen in plant cells, the same cells that help capture energy in sunlight. The National Science Foundation just awarded Pakrasi and his team $3.87 million to explore this idea. Read More > |
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WUSTL bucks global trend in female entrepreneurship
A recent report from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor indicates there are significantly fewer female than male entrepreneurs world-wide. But this isn’t the case among recent WUSTL graduates. Women have founded more than 40 percent of successful companies started through WUSTL’s business entrepreneurship courses. Pictured is alumna Sarah Haselkorn, founder of Green Bean restaurant. Read More > |
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Powderly named director of WUSTL’s Institute
for Public Health
William G. Powderly, MD, the J. William Campbell Professor of Medicine and co-director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the School of Medicine, has been named director of the Institute for Public Health, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. Read More > |
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Entrepreneur: Every day is a burning boat
In the Kansas City biotech world, Dr. Nick Franano is the poster child for success. Read More > |
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First all-undergraduate team among Olin Cup winners
Three teams — including the first all-undergraduate team to place — earned a total of $140,000 during the annual Olin Cup commercial business plan competition finals Jan. 30. One of the winning teams, MMBiosensing LLC (right), patented a new method of detecting heart attacks. Read More > |
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