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Viruses often spread through the brain in patchwork patterns, infecting some cells but missing others. New research at the School of Medicine helps explain why: Natural immune defenses that resist viral infection are turned on in some brain cells but switched off in others. The arrows in the picture highlight infected cells in a mouse brain.

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The Faces of Hope rally got the WUSTL campus fired up for Clinton Global Initiative University, which begins April 5. The community watched a video message from Chelsea Clinton and learned that WUSTL is committing $30 million to improve energy efficiency and ramp up other sustainability efforts on campus.

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Mindfulness — paying attention to one’s current experience in a nonjudgmental way — might help us to learn more about our own personalities, new WUSTL research suggests. Study co-author is Erika Carlson, an Arts & Sciences doctoral student in psychology.

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Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study oxygen consumption rates of individual cells using photoacoustic microscopy, a novel imaging technology he developed that uses light and sound to measure change.

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4 p.m. Friday, March 29
“Demagogues in Denim: Elia Kazan, Celebrity Politics and A Face in the Crowd (1957).” Visiting WUSTL alum David Blake (PhD ’94). Free and open to the public. Event details. Duncker Hall, Hurst Lounge.
(314) 935-5190.
8 p.m. Saturday, March 30
Whisper of the Heart (1995). In Japanese with English subtitles. Free and open to the public. Event details. Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 100.
(314) 935-4448.
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WUSTL’s faculty and staff conference center, the Whittemore House, will reopen April 8 following a three-month closure for major renovations. An open house is planned next week.
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Pioneering new treatments for rotator cuff injuries FULL STORY
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