Friday, Feb. 12, 2021
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| Holocaust studies scholar Erin McGlothlin has been named vice dean of undergraduate affairs in Arts & Sciences, effective June 1, announced Feng Sheng Hu, the Lucille P. Markey Distinguished Professor and dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences. |
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| A new study from the School of Medicine describes a strategy that could lead to therapies for clearing HIV infection. The researchers showed that human immune cells have a natural alarm system that detects the activity of a specific HIV protein. |
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| University benefactors Paul and Elke Koch (pictured) have established the Kim and Tim Eberlein Distinguished Professorship, which honors the Siteman Cancer Center director and his wife. The inaugural holder is Ryan Fields, MD, chief of the Section of Surgical Oncology. |
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| Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, has proposed providing at least $3,000 per child to millions of American families. The move could provide enormous future savings for the country, said the Brown School’s Mark Rank, one of the country’s foremost poverty experts. |
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Events
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WashU in the News
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| Notables
Rabbi Hershey Novack of Chabad at Washington University has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the Visionary Award by JProSTL, the professional sector of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis. |
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| Research Wire
Weikai Li, along with Michael J. Greenberg, both at the School of Medicine, and Michael L. Gross, in Arts & Sciences, received a three-year $750,000 grant from the American Heart Association for their research titled “Interdisciplinary structural studies of iron homeostasis in cardiovascular health.” |
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Perspectives
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Eileen G’Sell, senior lecturer in writing in Arts & Sciences, writes a review of the films “Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Time” and “My Little Sister.”
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Who Knew WashU? Amanda Gorman is the first person to be named a National Youth Poet Laureate and last weekend became the first poet to speak at the Super Bowl. How many U.S. poet laureates have been affiliated with WashU?
Answer: C) There have been four poet laureates associated with the university: Louise Glück, Howard Nemerov, William Jay Smith and Mona Van Duyn. Van Duyn was the first woman appointed a U.S. poet laureate, serving in 1992-93.
Congrats to this week’s winner, Nancy Grunde, alumni parent, who will receive an “I Knew WashU” luggage tag!
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In memoriam
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| Lawrence Coben, MD, who with his colleagues at the School of Medicine developed a widely used scale that characterizes and tracks impairment in dementia patients, died of cancer Oct. 7 in Dedham, Mass. An associate professor emeritus of neurology, he was 94. |
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