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News for the Washington University Campuses & Community
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Student hopes #MeToo effort leads to support for survivors
Miriam Joelson, a first-year student at the Brown School, hopes the #MeToo campaign can lead to action, not just awareness, about sexual assault and harassment. Joelson launched a nonprofit in 2016, Project #HereForYou, to support survivors of sexual violence.
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Trustees discuss higher ed trends, chancellor search
The Board of Trustees met Dec. 1 and focused on trends in higher education and the search for a new chancellor, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. The board also elected a new trustee, Albert Yuk Keung Ip, a 1973 alum.
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Social work, health journal launches
A collaborative group within the Brown School has worked with University Libraries to launch a new academic publication, the Journal on Race, Inequality, and Social Mobility in America. The peer-reviewed journal will publish twice a year starting in spring 2018.
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Campus Announcements
The committee leading the search for the university’s next chancellor will hold a listening session for Danforth Campus students from 4-6 p.m. today in the Lab Sciences Building, Room 300.
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Obituaries
 John A. (Jack) Pierce, MD, emeritus professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, died Nov. 24 in St. Louis following a long battle with cancer. Pierce came to the university in 1967 as the first director of the Department of Medicine’s Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.
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Sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield, of Arts & Sciences, writes in Slate that her research finds black men would be particularly suited to pursuing careers in nursing, a job in high demand, yet few are.
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 Conrad Chris Weihl, MD, PhD, of the School of Medicine, has received the 2017 Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholar Award in Basic Science, the most prestigious honor awarded by the American Neurological Association.
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Research Wire
Yi Wang, a doctoral student in the Brown School, has been named a 2017-18 Social Work HEALS Fellow, one of five recipients to receive grant funding. The fellowship is a collaborative endeavor of the National Association of Social Workers Foundation and the Council on Social Work Education.
Read more from the Research Wire →
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