Thursday, March 3, 2016

Top Stories

Four simple factors can determine future poverty risk

A new poverty risk calculator, co-developed by the Brown School’s Mark Rank, can determine an individual’s risk of poverty based on four factors: race, education, marital status and age.

Medical Distinguished Faculty, Goldstein honors awarded

Several School of Medicine faculty members recently were honored with Distinguished Faculty Awards for their dedication, talent and wide-ranging achievements. Winners of the Samuel R. Goldstein Leadership Awards in Medical Student Education also were honored.

Learn about the ‘Amazing Brain’

Washington University graduate students are ready to share their knowledge of the brain through a full day of demonstrations, experiments, puzzles and games. The Amazing Brain Carnival begins at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 5, at the Saint Louis Science Center.

Urban inequality scholar on campus next week

Elijah Anderson, a Distinguished Visiting Scholar, is among the nation’s most influential experts on urban inequality and race relations. He will give an Assembly Series lecture on “The Cosmopolitan Canopy” at noon Wednesday, March 9, in Anheuser-Busch Hall.

Events

9 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday, March 3

World Book Day drive

Noon Thursday, March 3

‘Beyond Flint’ panel discussion

7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 3

Wind Ensemble concert

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Campus Announcements

Women’s basketball to host NCAA tournament games

The ninth-ranked women’s basketball team was selected to host the 2016 NCAA Division III Championship first and second rounds Friday and Saturday, March 4-5, at the Field House. The Bears will face Greenville College at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

WashU in the News

Weight loss: What’s unseen is dangerously undervalued

The Huffington Post

Mapping the need: WashU data project expanding state by state

St. Louis Public Radio

Report: It’s not Supreme Court’s job to combine muni courts

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Campus Voices

‘Apple’s “code = speech” mistake’

Neil Richards, a privacy law expert, supports Apple’s position in its legal fight with the FBI over iPhone security. Still, he writes in the MIT Technology Review that it would be dangerous for the company to win on First Amendment grounds.

Notables

Mark Ryan has been appointed assistant director of collections and exhibitions for the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Ryan comes to the Kemper with 20 years of experience in registration and collections management.

The Record