Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016

Top Stories

Helping rebuild Nepal after an earthquake

In 2014, Marla Borkson volunteered in Nepal for five months. When an earthquake hit in April 2015, the law student knew she had to act. She spent her summer helping citizens in rural Nepal get health treatments.

WashU Expert: ACA as difficult to repeal as it was to pass

Despite promises made before Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, will be as difficult to outright repeal as it was to pass, said health economist Tim McBride, of the Brown School.

University image a winner in BioArt competition

A brightly colored image of bacteria and immune cells in the bladder is a winner in the annual BioArt competition. School of Medicine researchers submitted the image for the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology contest.

Events

10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8

School of Medicine farmers’ market

Noon Thursday, Dec. 8

‘Senators’ responsiveness to donors versus voters’

4 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8

‘The 2016 election in historical context’

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Campus Announcements

Register now for patient safety symposium

The seventh annual Patient Safety & Quality Symposium, sponsored by Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis Children’s Hospital and the School of Medicine, will be held March 24. Those interested can register to attend, and the deadline for abstract submissions is noon Jan. 3.

WashU in the News

The best undergraduate business programs of 2016

Forbes

Doctors debate if high school football should be banned

ABC Good Morning America | Yahoo News

If Waffle House is closed, it’s time to panic

FiveThirtyEight

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Campus Voices

‘Congress can and must restrict the president’s financial conflicts of interest’

Kathleen Clark, a legal ethics expert at the School of Law, wrote an op-ed in The New York Times calling on Congress to apply the federal financial conflict law to the president. “The strength of our democracy depends on ensuring that the public can reasonably have faith in government officials,” Clark said.

Notables

The Common Reader cover for aging issue Gerald Early’s publication, “The Common Reader” — and the people behind it — were the focus of an article by a Dutch graduate student who visited America looking for entrepreneurial journalism ideas and stumbled across the literary outlet.

Who Knew WashU?

chancellor's face on Brookings clock Question: Which chancellor’s face appeared for a time on the Brookings Hall clock?
Answer: A) In 1973, a group of students pulled off a difficult prank, hanging a giant image of Chancellor William Danforth, along with Mickey Mouse hands, on the face of Brookings’ iconic clock.
Congrats to this week’s winner, Natalie Kirchhoff, a senior in Arts & Sciences, who will receive an “I Knew WashU” luggage tag!

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