Friday, March 3, 2023
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Top stories
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Michael Mazzeo, a professor of strategy at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, will be the next dean of Olin Business School, effective Jan. 1, according to Chancellor Andrew D. Martin. |
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Every night, members of WashU’s 400-plus student groups and nearly 500 intramural and club sport teams fill classrooms, studios, common spaces and fields to perform, practice, build and compete. Get a small glimpse of one week’s nocturnal action. |
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School of Medicine researchers have identified a possible treatment strategy for some bone marrow failure syndromes. These syndromes lead to an increased risk of developing dangerous infections, anemia and an increased risk of blood cancers. |
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Events
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Noon–1:30 p.m. Friday, March 3 |
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1–3:50 p.m. Friday, March 3 |
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5–6:30 p.m. Monday, March 6 |
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Social Post of the Week
#WashUpets: meet WUPD’s newest members, reporting for duty
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WashU in the News
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HuffPost
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NBC Sports
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Miami Herald
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Campus and community news
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Notables Washington University, through its race and ethnicity cluster hire initiative, has hired eight new faculty members for the fall 2023 semester in continued efforts to build a world-class program on race. |
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Research Wire Michael Vahey, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, received a National Science Foundation CAREER award for work to establish the factors that drive the assembly of viral immune complexes and to study how they interact with immune cell receptors. |
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Perspectives
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A working group led by Jorge Llibre-Guerra, MD, at the School of Medicine, published a perspective piece arguing for including more people from low- and middle-income countries in Alzheimer’s clinical trials. “Democratization of clinical trials will ensure that potential treatments are safe, effective, accessible and equitable,” they wrote.
Alzheimer’s Association
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Who Knew WashU? Question: Which of the following statements about WashU history is not true?
Answer: C) The university relocated to the Danforth Campus in 1903. (WashU moved from its original location downtown to its current spot in 1905.) Read more history in Washington Magazine as the university marks its 170th anniversary.
Congrats to this week’s winner, Alison Verbeck, who works in physics in Arts & Sciences and will receive an “I Knew WashU” luggage tag!
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