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Thursday, March 24, 2016

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Medical school joins pediatric neuro-oncology consortium

The Pediatric Neuro-Oncology program at the School of Medicine has joined a prestigious network of the nation’s top childhood cancer centers. This widens treatment options for children with brain tumors.

Inaugural faculty fellows, scholar program starting

The Center for Diversity and Inclusion is accepting proposals for the inaugural Faculty Fellows & Emerging Scholar-Professional Program for the 2016-17 academic year. The deadline is April 15.

Panel to discuss implications of drones next week

Worried about where drones are headed in American society? Take part in a special event Thursday, March 31. View the exhibit on drones in the Kemper Art Museum, then attend an Assembly Series discussion on drones’ technical, legal and ethical issues.

Film screening Saturday to honor Tennessee Williams

Washington University will pay homage to a former student with a “Tennessee Williams Birthday Bash” at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 26. The event will feature a screening of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”

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Events

4 p.m. Thursday, March 24

Assembly Series: Juana Maria Rodriguez

5 p.m. Thursday, March 24

New mammography van unveiling

7 p.m. Thursday, March 24

Maya Angelou film screening

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Campus Announcements

Flags lowered to honor Belgium victims

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff through sunset Saturday, March 26, in honor of those killed in the terror attacks in Brussels this week.

Register for WashU Moves activity challenge

Registration for this spring’s WashU Moves activity challenge is open. Benefits-eligible faculty, staff, clinical fellows and postdoctoral appointees can participate in the challenge, which runs March 30-July 8.

WashU in the News

China’s private art museums: Architectural wonders or empty vanity projects?

CNN

Chemical engineers let hard-working cells live, kill lazy cells

UPI

The scientific reason you aren’t enjoying your free time

The Huffington Post

Washington University medical school launches informatics institute

St. Louis Business Journal

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Campus Voices

‘Roots of opioid epidemic can be traced back to two key changes in pain management’

Theodore Cicero and Matthew Ellis, of the School of Medicine, write for The Conversation that policy changes on treating pain fueled the epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse.

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Notables

John Baugh photoJohn Baugh, the Margaret Bush Wilson Professor in Arts & Sciences, will begin research for a book on linguistic profiling as part of an April scholar-in-residence program at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy.

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