Cultural education through tourism. An app for assisting physical therapy patients. A self-care subscription box. These are a few of the concepts being launched during this semester’s social entrepreneurship class at the Brown School. Joseph Steensma, EdD, teaches the course.

Amanda R. Emke, MD (right), and Michael Friedman, MD, have been named the 2015-2017 Carol B. and Jerome T. Loeb Teaching Fellows at the School of Medicine. The fellowship program was established in 2004 to advance clinical education. It provides fellows the opportunity to implement ideas that augment the education of medical students and residents.

The university’s Efficiency Initiative has been successful and is nearing its conclusion, announced Henry S. Webber, executive vice chancellor for administration. The effort has resulted in $20 million of annual, ongoing operational savings. Webber said the changes are benefiting schools and departments without having an impact on core administrative services.  

In 1915, at age 40, Winston Churchill was ousted as First Lord of the Admiralty during Britain’s disastrous Gallipoli campaign. It was a low point for the future prime minister, but recovery began in an unlikely place: in the garden, with a box of paints. “The Paintings of Sir Winston Churchill,” on view through Feb. 14 at the Kemper Art Museum, surveys five decades of art by this distinguished “pastime painter.”