American Indian child welfare to be assisted via GWB studyBy Ann Nicholson A study conducted by the George Warren Brown School of Social Work's (GWB) Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies will assist American Indian communities in better accessing much needed federal funding for adoption and foster care services. The "Tribal-State Title IV-E Intergovernmental Agreements: Facilitating Tribal Access to Federal Resources" study --which is part of a major national project on American Indian child welfare --also has contributed to proposed new federal legislation. "The study is the first to document current tribal-state agreements and overall barriers in tribal access to one of the largest federal sources of funding for child welfare," said Eddie Brown, D.S.W., associate dean for community affairs and director of the Buder Center. "Our research found that although Congress intended that IV-E funding serve all eligible children, American Indian children under tribal court jurisdiction are denied equal access to this crucial funding. Click to see entire article |
Aged rats show biological clock problemsBy Tony Fitzpatrick One of the problems of the aged is getting a good night's sleep. Often, the elderly sleep fitfully through the night only to be overcome by drowsiness during the day and nodding off then. A general feeling of tiredness and irritability goes hand-in-hand with this condition. Now, Erik Herzog, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, and colleagues from France and the University of Virginia have found this problem may be traced to a faulty biological clock --at least in aged rats. Herzog examined cells involved in the generation of circadian rhythms --the 24-hour cycles in things like alertness and hormone levels. In collaboration with Fabienne Aujard, Ph.D., of France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and Gene Block, Ph.D., professor of biology at the University of Virginia, Herzog found that the electrical activity of the clock cells in aged rats was not regular compared with that of young and middle-aged rats. |
Illustrator Allen honored in retrospective at Des Lee GalleryBy Liam Otten In the late 1950s and early '60s, Nashville native Thomas B. Allen emerged as one of the busiest illustrators in America. His portraits, reportage pieces and story illustrations regularly appeared in Esquire, Fortune, Life, Look, The New Yorker, People and Sports Illustrated, to name only a few. Today, Allen's work can still be seen on dozens of album covers for musicians ranging from big-band leader Benny Goodman and blues singer Jimmy Rushing to gospel legend Mahalia Jackson and the influential bluegrass duo Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. |
 Thomas
B. Allen illustrated this album cover, "The Jazz Odyssey of James Rushing,"
in 1987. |
 The Perfume Pagoda in Vietmnam is part of Rick Ray's "Vietnam and Burma," a film to be featured in the University's Travel Lecture Series. |
Journey to exotic locales with Travel Lecture SeriesBy Barbara Rea If you have wondered what it would be like to see Poland, or Burma, or Borneo, but didn't have the wherewithal to get there yourself, the University's Travel Lecture Series can offer the next best thing. On the first Friday of each month during the academic year, armchair travelers are invited to Graham Chapel to see some of the best travel films available, presented and narrated by their creators. Films are shown at 6 p.m. and again at 8:30 p.m., beginning Oct. 5 and concluding May 3. Admission is $5 per person. Subscriptions can be purchased for $26 per person or $43 for a double enrollment. The series is sponsored by the Washington University Association, which was established in 1898 to extend the University's educational mission to the St. Louis community. In its original incarnation, the association planned a series of lectures each year designed to educate the public on a variety of issues. Some of the lectures addressed local politics and University issues, while others presented travelogues or topical explorations in areas such as science, art and sociology. |
GWB's McMillen to study youths leaving foster careBy Ann Nicholson Curtis McMillen, Ph.D., associate professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work (GWB), has received a four-year, $1.3 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to document potentially dramatic changes in mental-health services for 380 Missouri youths leaving foster care over the next several years. "The study will examine what happens to adolescents who are heavy mental-health service users once they leave foster care and are no longer eligible for child service systems," McMillen said. "The mental-health service system changes considerably as youths move from adolescence to adulthood. There are fewer service options for adults, eligibility narrows and affordability changes. |
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