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LaTanya Buck appointed director of new Center for Diversity and Inclusion

LaTanya N. Buck, most recently director of the Cross Cultural Center at Saint Louis University, has been appointed director of WUSTL’s Center for Diversity and Inclusion. Holden Thorp, PhD, university provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, and Sharon Stahl, vice chancellor for students, made the announcement.​​

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Socioeconomic factors may make Medicare’s hospital readmissions data more useful

Some hospitals facing financial penalties from Medicare for readmitting too many patients soon after discharge say they are being unfairly penalized. Hospitals that treat a large number of patients with limited income and education are more likely to face such penalties.

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Taking flight: High schoolers learn about STEM careers

Students from Eureka High School prepare their plane for launch during the Boeing Design Challenge at the Field House last week. They were among 110 area high school students from six school districts who designed and hand-launched balsa wood gliders in different competitions, learning concepts of physics and engineering. The teams were assisted by engineers from Boeing Co.

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SIMS laboratory dedicated

WUSTL has dedicated the Grossman Family SIMS Laboratory in Rudolph Hall. The build-out of the lab was funded by a gift from the family of WUSTL alumnus Matthew Grossman. The space houses a state-of-the-art secondary-ion mass spectrometer. The instrument will be used primarily for analyzing geological samples. But it also will be available to members of the new Institute of Materials Science and Engineering.

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Olin honors distinguished alumni

Olin Business School feted four of its top alumni during the 2014 Olin Distinguished Alumni Awards Dinner in Clayton. The school presented four Distinguished Alumni Awards, the Dean’s Medal and the Olin Award, which recognizes the important impact scholarly research can have on business results.

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4 p.m. Wednesday, May 7

‘Environmentally Responsible Investing’

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8:30 a.m. Thursday, May 8

Annual Friedman lecture

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8:30 a.m. Thursday, May 8

Audiology Student Research Colloquium begins

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Engineers publish book on geological carbon storage

WUSTL’s Ramesh Agarwal, PhD, and alum Zheming Zhang, PhD, have just published a book on a technology that could help combat carbon dioxide emissions, “Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of Geological Carbon Storage.”

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For the Sake of All Community Conference May 30

Chanelle Hardy, JD, a senior executive with the National Urban League, will be the keynote speaker at the For the Sake of All Community Conference, which begins at 8 a.m. Friday, May 30, at the Missouri History Museum.

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