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Young kids with suicidal thoughts understand death
School of Medicine researchers have found that depressed children ages 4 to 6 who think and talk about committing suicide understand what it means to die better than others their age. They’re also more likely to think of death as something caused by violence.
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Research considers the wisdom of crowds
Is there a way to improve the bandwagon of online crowd information about restaurants, movies and the like? That’s the central question behind a research paper co-authored by Olin Business School’s Xing Huang.
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Trading a backpack for a hard hat
Maya Wong spent her last months at the McKelvey School of Engineering as an intern for McCarthy Building Companies on the east end project. She earned her degree in December and is back on the job. Read her story and more during Women in Construction Week.
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Campus Announcements
The Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures has been renamed the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies. Leaders said the new name better reflects its cross-disciplinary focus.
Due to spring break next week, The Record will only publish once, on Wednesday, March 13. For the latest news, visit The Source.
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Statistician Liberty Vittert, visiting assistant professor in Arts & Sciences, writes an opinion piece on the Fox News website about crime against Americans in Mexico and the story the numbers tell.
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 Joshua Blodgett, of Arts & Sciences, received a five-year $900,500 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to support his research on actinomycete bacteria. This bacteria produces a majority of current antibiotics and may harbor other useful small molecules that could be revealed by activating silent genes.
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 Regis J. O’Keefe, MD, PhD, the Fred C. Reynolds Professor and head of Orthopaedic Surgery at the School of Medicine, received the Alfred R. Shands Jr., MD, Award from the Orthopaedic Research Society.
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Who Knew WashU?
 Question: Barry Flanagan’s “Thinker on a Rock” provides an interesting navigational marker near Graham Chapel on the Danforth Campus. Where else can you find this sculpture?
Answer: D) All of the above. Flanagan’s rabbit sculpture also can be found at the Pappajohn Sculpture Park in Des Moines, Iowa; in Utrecht, Netherlands; and at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.
Congrats to this week’s winner, engineering and business alum Randi Weber, who will receive an “I Knew WashU” luggage tag!
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