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News for the Washington University Campuses & Community
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Fighting the vaccine wars on the side of science
Michael Kinch, associate vice chancellor and director of the Center for Drug Discovery, has written a book, “Between Hope and Fear,” to counter some of the most destructive misperceptions of lifesaving vaccines.
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WashU Expert: The Senate has learned nothing
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s failure to properly investigate Christine Blasey Ford’s claims demonstrates how little has changed since 1991, when Anita Hill presented similar testimony against Clarence Thomas, argued Mary Ann Dzuback, of Arts & Sciences.
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Campus Announcements
The Danforth Staff Council will hold its fall 2018 town hall meeting from 1-3 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16, in Mallinckrodt Center’s Edison Theatre. Chancellor-designate Andrew D. Martin is among the speakers.
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Obituaries
 James C. Warren, MD, professor emeritus and former head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the School of Medicine, died in July at his home in Mobile, Ala. He was 88. Warren was a renowned researcher, clinician and teacher.
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Luther Tyus, a graduate research assistant at the Brown School, writes a piece in The St. Louis American about the low expectations many black boys confront in school. His piece is part of a yearlong series, “Homegrown Black Males,” a joint project of the American and the Brown School, co-led by Sean Joe.
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 Barry Siegel, MD, professor of radiology and of medicine at the School of Medicine and the university’s Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, has been named a fellow of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
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Research Wire
 The National Science Foundation recently awarded Christopher Gill and Sanjoy Baruah, of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, a three-year, $501,797 grant to develop a unified framework for the design, verification and deployment of dynamically customizable safety-critical systems.
Read more from the Research Wire →
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