Friday, Oct. 28, 2016

Top Stories

Scientists studying light-sensing molecules in plants have discovered that they are also temperature sensors. The discovery eventually may allow them to design crops that are better able to cope with a warming world.

Founders Day celebration features Totenberg

NPR journalist and Supreme Court expert Nina Totenberg will headline the university’s Founders Day celebration Saturday, Nov. 5. Other highlights include the presentation of Distinguished Faculty Awards and Distinguished Alumni Awards.

Medical students benefit from learning labs

Medical students don’t have a lot of spare time. However, health-care professionals recognize the importance of research experience. At the School of Medicine, student research opportunities abound in nearly every discipline.

Writer Bergen to present annual Holocaust Lecture

For the university’s annual Holocaust Memorial Lecture, scholar and author Doris Bergen will deliver an address on “Holocaust or Genocide: Uniqueness and Universality.” The Assembly Series talk will be at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, in Umrath Lounge.

Events

Friday-Sunday, Oct. 28-30

Parent and Family Weekend

4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28

‘Dvorak, race and his American legacy’

Noon Saturday, Oct. 29

Undergraduate Research Symposium

3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30

Stephanie Brooks Dains memorial

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Campus Announcements

Africa Week 2016: Roots Decoded begins Sunday

Urban Cusp founder and former Washington Post columnist Rahiel Tesfamariam will kick off Africa Week at 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30, in Hillman Hall. Sponsored by the African Students Association, Africa Week explores African education, activism, cuisine and commerce.

WashU in the News

How this broccoli enzyme can slow aging

Time

Three lifestyle adjustments that may help stave off Alzheimer’s

The Huffington Post

How supercomputers can map disease — in your brain

Ozy

The doctor’s in … your school

WFMZ-TV (Pennsylvania)

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Campus Voices

Student, alum share ideas on making debates more meaningful

Suhas Gondi, a senior in Arts & Sciences, and Vishal Khetpal, a 2015 alum, write on The Huffington Post’s blog that the presidential debate held on campus Oct. 9 could have had more impact if the questions had focused on issues affecting St. Louis, many of which also apply more broadly.

Notables

William Maxwell and F.B. Eyes book cover William J. Maxwell, professor of English and of African and African-American studies in Arts & Sciences, has won a 2016 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for “F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature.”

The Record