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Startup Connection highlights commitment to entrepreneurship, innovation​​​

Washington University will host Startup Connection, St. Louis’ largest event for early-stage startups, on Nov. 18. Nearly a third of the companies taking part this year have direct ties to the university, highlighting the depth of the school’s commitment to entrepreneurship and innovation efforts.

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Randolph to receive NIH Director’s Pioneer Award

Gwendalyn J. Randolph, PhD, director of the Division of Immunobiology at the School of Medicine, has been chosen as a 2015 recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. The award challenges investigators to develop groundbreaking approaches that have a high impact on a broad area of biomedical or behavioral science. Randolph is one of 13 Pioneer Award winners this year.

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WashU Expert: Time for tobacco-state politicians to make ‘adult choice’ on trade agreement

If Republican senators from tobacco-growing Southern states believed in social responsibility, they would fully explore the TransPacific trade agreement’s potential impact around the world, argues Arts & Sciences’ Peter Benson, PhD. In particular, he points to provisions that influence American tobacco companies’ ability to flood the globe with cheap, cancer-causing cigarettes.

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Calendar Highlights

Friday, Oct. 9 - Sunday, Oct. 11

Parent and Family Weekend activities

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11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 9

Assembly Series: Eberhardt on bias in policing

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11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 10

Kemper Art Museum Community Day

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WUSTL Campus Voices

‘Stonewall: Debating the Subject of History’

Historian Andrea Friedman, PhD, of Arts & Sciences, writes about the backlash against the movie “Stonewall,” and the history of the gay rights movement, on the Center for the Humanities website.

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Reminder: diversity forum this afternoon

Reminder: All members of the university community are invited to take part in a forum discussion that will focus on the university’s ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts. The forum will be at 3:30 p.m. today at the Clark-Fox Forum in Hillman Hall.

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