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News for the Washington University Campuses & Community
Straight from The Source
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Engineers work to fight pollution at home, globally
A group of university aerosol scientists, engineers and administrators traveled to Asia this summer to address some of the important problems related to energy, environment and health that we face today. Here, four engineering faculty share their takeaways.
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Scientists become subjects in brain-scanning project
A research group started in 2013 by two neuroscientists at the School of Medicine collected a massive amount of data on individual brains. The subjects? The scientists and eight others, all junior faculty or graduate students.
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University College launches tuition program for cities, districts
University College, the professional and continuing education division of Arts & Sciences, is offering a 50 percent discount to full-time employees of St. Louis, Clayton and University City and their school districts. Charter school employees also are eligible.
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Campus Announcements
The Kemper Art Museum is temporarily closed for installation and building maintenance. The museum will reopen Monday, Aug. 21.
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A look back at the World’s Fair
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Campus Voices
Gerald Early, of Arts & Sciences, writes a commentary featured on the CNN website about the NAACP’s advisory warning African-Americans about traveling in Missouri.
Read more Campus Voices →
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 “Too Far North,” a poem by Aaron Coleman, a PhD candidate in comparative literature in Arts & Sciences, was published recently in The New York Times Magazine. Coleman also recently received a Philip K. Jansen Memorial Fellowship from the American Literary Translators Association.
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Research Wire
 Arye Nehorai, of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, received a four-year, $740,000 grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research for research titled “Advanced Machine Learning Techniques for Adaptive Radars in Nonstationary Environments.”
Read more from the Research Wire →
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Who Knew WashU?
 Question: Spring and summer are a key time to enjoy the Elizabeth Gray Danforth Butterfly Garden. Which university group developed the garden in 1996 and maintains it today?
Answer: D) The Woman’s Club was involved with the project from the start, from designs to planting to maintaining the garden, named in honor of the late wife of Chancellor Emeritus William H. Danforth.
Congrats to this week’s winner, Karen Schwelle, of the Office for International Students and Scholars, who will receive an “I Knew WashU” luggage tag!
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