Medicaid claims are a poor way to identify child abuse and neglect, according to a study led by Ramesh Raghavan, PhD, associate professor at the Brown School. Researchers should use other data to determine the scope of the problem, he says. The study was published in Child Maltreatment.

The Railway Exchange Building in downtown St. Louis is an icon, synonymous with holiday window displays, downtown shopping and civic pride. Yet since being vacated by Macy’s in 2013, the structure has sat largely empty. Now, the Partnership for Downtown St. Louis and the Sam Fox School are partnering to explore adaptive reuse strategies for the 21-story high-rise.

The delicate balance between public good and individual choice will be highlighted at the Institute for Public Health’s seventh annual conference Oct. 7. Ellen Wright Clayton, JD, MD, an internationally respected leader in law and genetics, will give the keynote address.

Sherrilyn Ifill, JD (left), president and director-general of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, gave an Assembly Series address this month on civil rights. She discussed topics from the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision to last month’s shooting death of Ferguson teenager Michael Brown.