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Friday, Dec. 16, 2016

Top Stories

Regulating world’s ‘most heavily marketed product’

Even though cigarette ads are long absent from the airwaves, the tobacco industry still pitches its products. A Brown School team led by Doug Luke, director of the Center for Public Health Systems Science, is wrapping up a five-year study of retail tobacco-control policies.

Depressed children respond differently to rewards

Measuring brain waves, university researchers have found that clinically depressed children don’t respond to rewards the way other children do. The findings may show how the brain processes emotions in young children with depression.

Housing program provides loans, strengthens neighborhoods

The Employer Assisted Housing Program provides up to $8,500 in down payment and closing cost assistance to employees who buy homes in certain nearby neighborhoods. It’s one way the university is helping to stabilize the areas around its campuses.

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Events

3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18

Guitar Gala

9 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20

‘Is cannabis bad for you?’

7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20

The 442s Holiday Spectacular

Wednesday, Dec. 21

Student exams end

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Campus Announcements

Happy holidays from the Record

Today’s issue marks the last Record of the calendar year. Publication will resume in January. For the latest news, visit The Source. The Record staff wishes everyone a safe and happy holiday season.

Social Photo of the Week

Video: Students read former professor’s poem

WashU in the News

How much you make may be linked to how much you stress

CNN

Drugmakers push profitable, but unproven, opioid solution

The Washington Post

WashU puts former researchers’ Nobel Prize on display

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Discussing hate groups and what they stand for

St. Louis Public Radio

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Campus Voices

The costs to run the Death Star

Just in time for the latest “Stars Wars” movie release, Zachary Feinstein, assistant professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, comments on his blog, “Fictionomics,” about an analysis of what it would cost to operate the Death Star.

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Notables

Henry Webber photoHenry S. Webber, the university’s executive vice chancellor for administration, has been named chairman of the Cortex Innovation Community, effective Jan. 1. Visit the Cortex website for a Q&A about Webber’s plans as chairman and vision for Cortex.

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