Who Knew WashU?
 Question: The university's independent student newspaper, Student Life, has been a part of campus for a long time. What year was this publication established?
Answer: B) One of the nation’s oldest college newspapers, Student Life was founded in 1878 and launched the careers of many prominent journalists.
Congrats to this week’s winner, Cheryl Lyons, who works in the Division of Oncology at the School of Medicine and will receive an “I Knew WashU” luggage tag!
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Two physicians from the University of Ghana recently wrapped up a monthlong visit to Washington University as part of the Africa Initiative’s faculty exchange. The program is designed to promote human capital development in Africa as well as to increase opportunities for African faculty and scholars to visit the university.
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Washington University is working to develop a framework for algorithms that can make decisions with fair outcomes. Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, is principal investigator on the project, which received a three-year $444,145 grant from the National Science Foundation.