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Chairs provide great support during long meetings — but they may be holding us back. Standing during meetings boosts the excitement around creative group work and reduces people’s tendencies to defend their turf, a new
WUSTL study finds.
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| Explosive devices are the most common cause of traumatic brain injuries in veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. A new study shows that military personnel with mild brain trauma related to such blasts had similar outcomes as those with mild brain injury from other causes, say researchers at the School of Medicine.
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| A recent internal audit of Veterans Affairs alleges that supervisors got bonuses partly by reporting artificially low wait times for veterans seeking care. Lamar Pierce, PhD, an Olin Business School expert on compensation and incentive conflict, says employers frequently use financial incentives to motivate employees, but that the VA should have thought more about unintended consequences.
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| The Brown School’s Michael Sherraden, PhD, and the School of Law’s Marion G. Crain, JD, co-authors of “Working and Living in the Shadow of Economic Fragility,” were in Washington, D.C., in May for a presentation. They say U.S. economic policies have failed to restore full employment and, in some ways, have made the labor market worse for many Americans.
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| Children with newly identified rare mutations in two genes are about four times more likely to develop severe scoliosis than their peers with normal versions of the genes, scientists at the School of Medicine have found.
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7:30 p.m. Friday, June 20
‘Meteorite Hunting in Antarctica’
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1 p.m. Saturday, June 21
PXSTL United Story event
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5:30 p.m. Sunday, June 22
World Cup watch party
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11:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 24
Lunch & Learn: Accelerate Your Career
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Psychologist Tim Bono, PhD, assistant dean of Arts & Sciences, offers a TEDx presentation on how to respond to failure.
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WUSTL’s University Archives are included in a C-SPAN program airing this weekend, June 21 and 22. The network features St. Louis as part of its 2014 Cities Tour and discusses William Greenleaf Eliot’s papers in the University Libraries collection.
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