The Record
Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024
Top stories
WashU enrolls more low-income, but fewer Black students
In the first class since the U.S. Supreme Court banned race-conscious admissions, a WashU administrator reports on, and offers context about, the makeup of the Class of 2028.
Brown School adds faculty
Five new faculty members have joined the Brown School for the 2024-25 academic year, helping to advance research in global health, socioeconomic disparities, health equity and more.
New head of developmental biology named
Noted developmental biologist Andy Groves has been named head of the Department of Developmental Biology at WashU Medicine. Groves studies development of the inner ear, with the goal to spur new treatments for hearing loss.
Events
AUG 29 |
Ways to support effective child care policiesNoon–1:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29 |
AUG 30 |
WashU employee health screening on Medical Campus10 a.m.–3:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30 |
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The View From HereSpecial Convocation edition |
WashU in the News
Missouri Supreme Court blocks agreement that would have halted execution
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Can multiple sclerosis prevent Alzheimer’s disease?
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We train AI; AI might be training us, too, WashU researchers find
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Could our plastic soon be made by this purple bacteria?
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Campus and community news
Courtney Reichhardt, in Arts & Sciences, has been awarded a prestigious Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to pursue projects on fibrillar adhesins, which bacteria use to stick to each other.
Linda C. Samuels, a professor and chair of urban design in WashU’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has been named the school’s inaugural director of sustainable design and environmental justice.
WUPD launches texting service to gather feedback
In an effort to better serve the WashU community, the Washington University Police Department is sending text message surveys after some service calls. They are short and voluntary.
Perspectives
‘Teaching markets and morality’
Peter Boumgarden, at Olin Business School, and Abram Van Engen, in Arts & Sciences, write about the importance of teaching students to consider big moral questions as they wrestle with issues in the worlds of politics, finance and more.
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