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News for the Washington University Campuses & Community
Straight from The Source
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Expanding Medicaid a win for state, leaders say
Chancellor Andrew D. Martin and David H. Perlmutter, MD, dean of the School of Medicine, say the ballot initiative to expand the state’s Medicaid program will be positive for Missouri, both through improved access to health care and economically.
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Effort to screen potential COVID-19 drugs underway
The School of Medicine’s Jennifer A. Philips, MD, PhD, has set up a screening platform to test compounds for activity against the COVID-19 virus. Her lab has screened dozens of compounds and is prepared to accept more suggestions of promising candidate molecules.
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Race lab recommends specific policing reforms
As the nation struggles with police violence, a new report from the Race and Opportunity Lab at the Brown School recommends reforms to build an equitable and accountable approach that will include liability, a misconduct database and federal funding mandates.
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Local gym moves classes to West Campus garage
TruFusion STL fitness studio on the West Campus was facing financial devastation. The university helped the gym move its yoga, cycling, bootcamps and other classes to the university’s open-air garage.
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Campus Announcements
The Office of Sustainability invites members of the university community to join the WashU team in an online plastic-free challenge this month.
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Obituaries
 Leon E. Ashford, an early advocate for first-generation and Black students at Washington University, died in March. He was 90. Ashford worked for the university for 39 years, retiring in 1995 as director of Student Educational Services, a precursor to The Learning Center.
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Rebecca Wanzo, in Arts & Sciences, writes an op-ed published on CNN about “blackface episodes” and the harder work that still must be done.
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 The National Endowment for Financial Education honored Yingying Zeng, research associate at the Center for Social Development and the Social Policy Institute, with an award for her paper on workplace financial counseling.
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Research Wire
 Hong Chen, at the McKelvey School of Engineering and the School of Medicine, will address the need for innovative approaches to treating pediatric brain cancer with a three-year $500,000 grant from the Australia-based Charlie Teo Foundation.
Read more from the Research Wire →
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Who Knew WashU?
 Question: University Libraries boasts a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence, known as a Southwick broadside. How many copies of the broadside exist today?
A) 1
B) 7
C) 11
D) 29
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