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If Judge Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed to the Supreme Court, Republicans will have succeeded in a decades-long effort to take the courts in a more conservative direction. While they will surely celebrate this victory, the real loser in this partisan battle is not the other side — it’s the Supreme Court. And without radical reforms to save its legitimacy, the Court may never recover from its transformation into a nakedly partisan institution.

Sling Health, the student-run biotechnology accelerator, will hold Problem Day on Sept. 28 on the Medical Campus. The deadline to apply to become a team leader is Friday, Sept. 7, and a team member, Sept. 28.

Dedric Carter, vice chancellor for operations and technology transfer and professor of engineering practice at Washington University in St. Louis, is one of 11 promising higher education business leaders selected as a 2018-19 National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) Fellow.

Members of the Washington University in St. Louis community are invited to host Washington University students in their homes for casual dinner and conversation through the Home Plate program. Founded in 2002 by Risa Zwerling Wrighton, Home Plate helps new students feel at home in St. Louis and offers faculty, staff and alumni an opportunity to engage with talented students from across the globe.

Anika Walke, assistant professor of history in Arts & Sciences, is co-recipient of a 2018 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant to support “The Holocaust Ghettos Project” from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Kawanna Leggett, executive director of residential life at Washington University in St. Louis, has been elected to the executive board of the Association of College and University Housing Officers – International. 

Celebrated composer Darwin Aquino will join the Washington University Symphony Orchestra as conductor-in-residence beginning with the 2018-19 season.

As classes resume, members of the Washington University in St. Louis community are reminded that they can download the mobile personal safety app Noonlight (formerly known as SafeTrek) for free.

The Department of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences recently received an Innovation Award from the Campus Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Association and Association of Public and Land-grant Universities in recognition of its outstanding program that improves research safety on campus.

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff in memory of U.S. Sen. John McCain until sunset Sunday, Sept. 2. McCain died Aug. 25 at age 81.