T&S ‘Parent Trap’ columnist Dr. Tim Jordan recently popped up on Huffington Post’s ‘Parents’ blog. Jordan discussed how parents, teachers and other concerned adults can support and encourage adolescent girls as they make the transition from childhood to womanhood. It’s also the topic of Jordan’s new book, Sleeping Beauties, Awakened Women: Guiding the Transformation of Adolescent Girls.
Bob O’Loughlin of LHM (Lodging Hospitality Management) has been named 2013 Clayton Businessperson of the Year by the Clayton Chamber of Commerce. LHM manages area hotels and restaurants, including Basso and The Restaurant at The Cheshire. Other honorees include Timekeepers, Excellence in Retail/Service awardee, and St. Louis Economic Development Partnership, Cornerstone awardee. They will be celebrated Feb. 13 at The Ritz-Carlton.
Hawthorne Leadership School for Girls, the region’s first all-girl’s STEM charter school, is scheduled to open in August 2015. The open-enrollment, tuition-free school, founded by Mary Danforth Stillman, will start with a sixth and seventh grade class and serve 500 students in grades six through 12 by 2020. The project is sponsored by Washington University as part of an ongoing effort to make education accessible to all students, regardless of background or finances. The school has yet to identify a location. Stillman, educated as an attorney, is a former assistant dean at Washington University. She is the daughter of Sen. John Danforth and the niece of former W.U. Chancellor William Danforth.
Washington University psychologist Deanna Barch, Ph.D., was recently mentioned on nytimes.com. Barch belongs to a team working on the first interactive diagram of connections in the human brain. She and colleagues at Washington University, University of Minnesota and University of Oxford are doing brain scans and cognitive, psychological, physical and genetic assessments of 1,200 volunteers. The data will be incorporated into a 3-D map that shows the structure and function of a healthy brain at work. The brain map and its database are part of the latest phase of the Human Genome Project.
Academy of Science St. Louis has announced recipients of its 20th annual Outstanding Scientist Awards, including the Peter Raven Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. John Heuser of Washington University. Other honorees are Robert Fraley, Ph.D, Monsanto; Novus International; George Yatskievych, Ph.D., Missouri Botanical Garden; Michael Cosmopoulos, Ph.D., University of Missouri; Daniela Salvemini, Ph.D., Saint Louis University; Dr. David Holtzman, Washington University; Lihong Wang, Ph.D., Washington University; Charles Armstrong, Ph.D., Monsanto; Caitlin Kelleher, Ph.D., Washington University; and Robert Marquis, Ph.D., University of Missouri.
