Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023
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Top stories
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| To better support employees and spur investment in historically disinvested neighborhoods, BJC HealthCare and WashU are expanding their Live Near Your Work homeownership program to include new neighborhoods in St. Louis, north St. Louis County and University City. |
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| A Medicare program that aims to improve health care and lower costs by providing incentives to doctors and hospitals resulted in no improvements in mental health care, according to a study by researchers at the School of Medicine and Yale University. |
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| This fall, a new course for first-year students is underway, “Modern Media: The Good, the Bad, & the Future” in Arts & Sciences’ Ampersand Program. First-years, and the rest of us, have a lot to learn about media literacy, explained Eileen G’Sell, who is co-teaching the course. |
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Events
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5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9 |
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Friday, Nov. 10– Saturday, Nov. 11 |
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WashU in the News
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The New York Times
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USA Today
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Poets & Quants
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Washington People
Katharine Flores
Katharine Flores is the Christopher I. Byrnes Professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering and directs WashU’s Institute of Materials Science & Engineering. An alumna, she has brought dedication, leadership and expertise to the materials science program and is helping it reach the next level.
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Campus and community news
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| Notables
Arts & Sciences’ Ashlynn Berry is one of 60 graduate students from across the country — and the only one in Missouri — selected to participate in the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research fellowship program. |
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| Research Wire
Rajan Chakrabarty, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, received funding through a U.S. Department of Energy program to explore how physical and chemical properties of aerosols are distributed vertically in the air. |
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Samuel Kizito, a PhD student in public health sciences at the Brown School, co-authored a correspondence published in The Lancet addressing the HIV epidemic among adolescents in Sierra Leone. |
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| Announcements Parking & Transportation Services shares an update as the semester winds down, including information
about vehicle storage, inclement weather preparation and spring U-Pass registration. |
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Who Knew WashU? Question: Many people have strong feelings about seasonal time changes, like when we had to “fall back” an hour Nov. 5. Circadian rhythm experts, including Erik Herzog in Arts & Sciences, argue we should stop switching clocks and instead stick with:
A) Permanent standard time.
B) Permanent daylight saving time.
C) Splitting the difference — move clocks back 30 minutes.
Submit your answer → |
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In memoriam
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| Sue Taylor, a longtime teacher of applied music in harp in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, died at home Oct. 30. She was 85. |
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