Wednesday, June 16, 2021
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Top stories
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| Researchers at the School of Medicine and the University of Chicago have found that a single, one-hour treatment that involves breathing in laughing gas can significantly improve symptoms in people with treatment-resistant depression. |
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| An interdisciplinary team at Washington University found that combining certain data after a patient’s first treatment can predict how a breast cancer tumor is responding to chemotherapy. |
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| New School of Medicine research shows that international travelers often return home with new bacterial strains jostling for position within the gut microbiome. Such travel is contributing to the rapid spread of antimicrobial resistance. |
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| New Arts & Sciences research sheds light on how — and in what context — peacekeepers can contain the spread of violence in fragile post-conflict areas. |
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| The U.S. Green Building Council awarded Washington University a 2021 Leadership Award for excellence in its West North Central Region. |
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| “On Principle,” Olin Business School’s new podcast, tells the stories of pivotal business decisions. What led to them? And what lessons can executives, entrepreneurs and other leaders draw from them? |
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| Research Wire
Michael Brent at the McKelvey School of Engineering plans to make a new map and model of the information-processing machinery in cells with a five-year nearly $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). |
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| Notables
Poets & Writers has awarded the 2021 Jackson Poetry Prize to Carl Phillips, professor of English in Arts & Sciences. The group will honor Phillips, the author of 15 books of poetry, with a virtual celebration June 29. |
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Perspectives
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“When we isolated these plant-like marine microbes, we never knew what secrets they would reveal. Lucky for us, they help us sock away the global greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide,” writes biologist Arpita Bose, assistant professor in Arts & Sciences, in this “Behind the Paper” blog post.
Nature
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Who Knew WashU? Question: When did Chancellor Andrew Martin earn his PhD in political science from WashU?
A) 1983B) 1992C) 1998D) 2001
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In memoriam
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| Wallace “Wally” Diboll, a former professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at the McKelvey School of Engineering who taught for 37 years, died May 7 of congestive heart failure in St. Louis. He was 97. |
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