Three Questions: Nobel laureate W. E. Moerner
In fall 2015, Nobel laureate W. E. Moerner returned to campus to give the Weissman Lecture. Washington magazine spoke with him and asked what it was like to win the world’s top prize.
2014 Leopold Marcus lecture by Nobel laureate
Roger Tsien, one of three chemists who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
in 2008 for the discovery and development of green fluorescent protein, will give the Leopold Marcus lecture at Washington University in
St. Louis. His talk, “Fluorescent Molecules for Fun and Profit,” is intended for a general audience and will take place at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 12, in the Laboratory Sciences Building, Room 300. The talk is free and open to the public.
Nobel Laureate Ciechanover to speak April 27
Aaron Ciechanover, MD, PhD, the Distinguished Research
Professor at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel,
and co-recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his
contributions to the discovery and description of a process cells use to
discard unwanted proteins, will give a special seminar at Washington
University in St. Louis Friday, April 27. His lecture, “The Ubiquitin Proteolytic System: From
Basic Mechanisms Through Human Diseases and on to Drug Development,”
will take place at 4 p.m. in the Laboratory Sciences Building, Room 300.
The seminar is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
WUSTL conference honors legacy of Nobel Laureate Douglass North Nov 4-6
Some of the world’s leading social scientists will be on campus Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 4-6, as Washington University in St. Louis hosts an academic conference honoring the legacy of Nobel Laureate Douglass C. North, PhD. North, who celebrates his 90th birthday Friday, Nov. 5, is the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts & Sciences and co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Nobel Laureate North discusses violence, social orders May 3
A lecture on “Violence and Social Orders: Where Are We Going” by economics Nobel Laureate Douglass C. North, PhD, the Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts & Sciences, has been rescheduled for 12 noon May 3 in Room L006, Seigle Hall, Danforth Campus, Washington University.
Nobel Laureate Kenneth Arrow discusses economics of new malarial drugs, Oct. 21
Nobel Laureate Kenneth J. Arrow will discuss “The Economics of New Antimalarial Drugs” at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 21 in the Bryan Cave Courtroom, Anheuser-Busch Hall. Arrow, a longtime professor of economics at Stanford University, recently chaired a National Institute of Medicine committee that issued a report titled “Saving Lives, Buying Time: Economics of Malaria Drugs in an Age of Resistance.” Malaria, along with tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, is one of the big three global killers of the world’s poorest people.