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The 2016 presidential campaign has offered a riveting window into the ways gender and power operate within American culture, said Mary Ann Dzuback, chair and professor of women, gender and sexuality studies in Arts & Sciences at Washington University.

Thousands of Washington University in St. Louis students are expected to vote Tuesday. To make the experience easy, and memorable, the university has established one central polling location for all students who live on campus and it will host events and an evening watch party at the Danforth University Center.

On Tuesday, Nov. 8, Missouri voters will be asked to consider a ballot initiative — Amendment 3 — that relates to an increase in our state’s tobacco tax. Though simple on its face, Amendment 3 raises very serious concerns, particularly for world-leading research institutions like ours.

More than three dozen alumni of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts have contributed works to “Ontology of Influence,” an exhibition paying homage to sculptor Ron Leax, the Halsey C. Ives Professor of Art.

Founded in 1969, the African and African-American Studies program at Washington University in St. Louis was among the nation’s first. This spring, the university will mark a new chapter when the program becomes a full department within Arts & Sciences.

Last month, a new parking and transportation management strategy that will be implemented following May 2017 Commencement was announced. The new plan – which will address key weaknesses in the current program, enhance alternative transportation options and improve resource utilization to better serve the campus community – has been in development over the past year.

Throughout our lives, our brains are always changing. To capture that transformation, scientists will scan the brains of people from kindergarten through their later years to build maps of the brain as it develops and changes over the decades. The endeavor, led by researchers at Washington University, is funded by two grants totaling $34 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The discarded bone of a chicken leg, still etched with teeth marks from a dinner thousands of years ago, provides some of the oldest known physical evidence for the introduction of domesticated chickens to the continent of Africa, research from Washington University in St. Louis has confirmed.

Inflammation is one of the main reasons why people with diabetes experience heart attacks, strokes, kidney problems and other, related complications. Now, in a surprise finding, researchers at the School of Medicine have identified a possible trigger of chronic inflammation.

Researchers at the School of Medicine have developed a chemical compound, named Fluselenamyl, that detects amyloid clumps in Alzheimer’s patients better than current FDA-approved compounds.