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Targeting gut microbes to fight childhood malnutrition

Two new studies led by the School of Medicine show that effects of gut bacteria reach far beyond the gastrointestinal tract. Manipulating the makeup of gut microbes may provide new ways to treat and help prevent childhood malnutrition.

A shot in the arm for flu vaccine distribution

Each fall, doctors stress the importance of getting a flu shot, but on-time delivery of the vaccine can often be tricky. Research co-authored by Olin’s Fuqiang Zhang proposes a tweak to the vaccine supply chain that could reduce patient wait time.

Putting For the Sake of All strategies into practice

More than 100 community leaders will convene today at the Brown School. They’re helping lay the groundwork for implementing strategies put forth by For the Sake of All, the multidisciplinary project on African-Americans’ health and well-being.

WashU Expert: Getting college students to vote

Amanda Moore McBride, executive director of the Gephardt Institute, says U.S. colleges and universities must do more to encourage students to vote. While voter registration drives matter, what happens in the classroom may play a bigger role.

WashU Expert: S.D. bill already affecting transgender students

South Dakota is poised to become the first state to require transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms of their birth sex. The proposal is already affecting transgender Americans’ health and well-being, said the Brown School’s Vanessa Fabbre.

Events

3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19

‘Facing Ferguson: Reflecting on Racial Innocence’

11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 20

‘Arts & Sciences: The Heart of a University’

4:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 22

‘Chinese Constitutionalism at the Crossroads’

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Campus Announcements

Flags lowered to remember Justice Scalia

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff until sunset Saturday, Feb. 20, in remembrance of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last weekend.

WashU in the News

The potential for the most liberal Supreme Court in decades

The New York Times

Terrorist’s locked iPhone adds urgency to encryption debate

USA Today

Recent St. Louis flooding made worse by human changes

Ars Technica

The work of Sam Fox’s Mary Borgman, charcoal artist

Drawing magazine

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Campus Voices

‘Whither the patent system?’

Economists Michele Boldrin and David Levine, of Arts & Sciences, write in a piece on The Hill’s Congress Blog that the nation’s patent system is failing, discourages innovation and “is in desperate need of reform.”

Notables

Simon Haroutounian, assistant professor of anesthesiology, has been named the chief of clinical research for the Washington University Pain Center.