Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Top Stories

Centene, university collaborate on personalized medicine research

Centene Corp. and the School of Medicine announced a partnership to transform and accelerate research into treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer, diabetes and obesity. Centene will fund up to $100 million over 10 years in research at the university.

Tidying up: A new way to direct trash to autophagy

Marie Kondo herself couldn’t do it any better. Researchers in Arts & Sciences have uncovered a previously unknown structural feature of living cells that is critical to tidying up.

Environmental engineering degree to debut

Beginning in fall 2019, the McKelvey School of Engineering will welcome its first cohort of students who will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering.

Sifting inhuman options for human choices

Two Olin Business School faculty members collaborated to create a new customer choice algorithm designed to better populate product slots in online stores hosted by Alibaba. The study earned them the 2019 Olin Award.

Events

9–11:30 a.m. Thursday, April 11

Arabic calligraphy workshop

3–4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11

Technology town hall

3–5 p.m. Thursday, April 11

Faculty fellows celebration

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WashU in the News

Introducing the world’s first gene-edited lizard

The New York Times

Missouri looks to regulate coal ash ponds

Science Friday

Drug dog dropout now helps Washington University researcher track jaguars and mountain lions

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Campus Voices

Medical students discuss 500 Women in Medicine initiative

Kate Gerull and Maren Loe, two of the Washington University medical students who launched a new initiative called 500 Women in Medicine, discuss their work on the “Postcall” podcast. The effort is a satellite organization of the 500 Women Scientists project.

Notables

Ryan C. Fields, MD, a noted cancer surgeon and researcher, has been named chief of the Section of Surgical Oncology at the School of Medicine. Fields also is associate program director of the General Surgery Residency Program and director of resident research in the Department of Surgery.

Members of the Brown School community, including Dean Mary McKay, were honored with awards from the Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy at the 5th Annual Social Work Day on the Hill last month in Washington.

Who Knew WashU?

Who Knew WashU graphic Question: Thurtene, the oldest student-run carnival in the United States, returns to campus this weekend. It has operated without interruption since 1935 except for one year. In which year was the carnival not held?
A) 1937 B) 1943 C) 1970 D) 1983

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