Friday, April 5, 2019

Top Stories

Bloomberg to deliver Commencement address

Michael R. Bloomberg, 108th mayor of New York City and founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies, will deliver the 2019 Commencement address May 17, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton.

‘Jumping genes’ drive many cancers

Mistakes in DNA are known to drive cancer growth. But a new School of Medicine study heavily implicates a genetic phenomenon commonly known as “jumping genes” in the growth of tumors.

Researchers discover ‘featherweight oxygen’

Researchers in Arts & Sciences have discovered and characterized a new form of oxygen dubbed “featherweight oxygen” — the lightest-ever version of the familiar chemical element.

Imagining new futures for architecture and storage

New York-based architect Lily Zhang has won the 2018-19 James Harrison Steedman Memorial Fellowship in Architecture. The award is organized by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and the American Institute of Architects St. Louis.

Federal farming report features two Olin researchers

Two Olin Business School researchers are highlighted in a new federal report showing how U.S. farmers — facing a surge of weather events and disease outbreaks — can increase production and revenues with innovations produced by government-funded agricultural research.

Events

3 p.m. Friday, April 5

‘Black Gospel Music, Instrumentality, Embodiment and Power’

4 p.m. Friday, April 5

Meet the Leader series: Judge Rodney Sippel

11 a.m. Saturday, April 6

Art on Campus walking tour

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WashU in the News

Why Donald Trump needs Obamacare

CNN

NASA is funding research to create ‘bacteria factories’ for future space missions

Newsweek

WashU doctors take mental health-focused approach to trauma, care and justice among refugees

St. Louis Public Radio

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Campus Voices

‘Abandoning public education will be considered unthinkable 50 years from now’

Sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield, of Arts & Sciences, writes an article in Vox about the importance of investing in quality public education “so that it becomes more of a democratizing force and less a mechanism for maintaining inequality.”

Notables

Lawrence E. Thomas, who used a summer internship as a springboard to a lifelong career with Edward Jones, will receive the Dean’s Medal at a dinner gala this evening in recognition of his legacy and contributions to Olin Business School. Four others will be honored as distinguished alumni.

Barbara B. Warner, MD, a physician-scientist noted for her commitment to critically ill infants, has been named director of the Division of Newborn Medicine at the School of Medicine.

The Record