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Dispatches from the Horn of Africa

Jeffrey A. Lowell, MD, of the School of Medicine is also a commander in the U.S. Navy. He currently is deployed to Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, Africa. He’s checked in to tell us about his experience there — and about the gratitude of service members who recently received care packages from some generous Washington University employees.

Common soccer injuries: knees, ankles, noggins

Washington University experts weigh in on common soccer injuries.

Medicine & Health

Molecular scissors help viruses break out of cells

Scientists at the School of Medicine have produced the first detailed images of a protein important to viral infection. The images, from Phyllis Hanson, MD, PhD, and her colleagues, are of molecular scissors that let viruses such as HIV bud from infected cells.

Science & Technology

Washington University’s Joseph Jez is one of 15 ‘million dollar professors’

Joseph Jez, PhD, co-director of the plant and microbial biosciences graduate program at Washington University in St. Louis, is one of 15 professors nationwide to receive a $1 million HHMI grant to bring the creativity he has shown in the lab to the undergraduate classroom. He plans to use the grant to establish a two-year program called the Biotech Explorers Pathway that will introduce entering students to both the science and business of biotechnology.

Business & Entrepreneurship

First U.S.-India joint EMBA program announced

WUSTL and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay have announced a joint Executive MBA program aimed at the international executive. The new program is the first of its kind to confer an MBA degree from both an Indian and an American university and will be modeled after WUSTL’s highly ranked Executive MBA in China and the United States.

Fair Saint Louis reminder

A number of operations at Washington University in St. Louis will experience disruptions as the 34th annual Fair Saint Louis takes place Thursday through Saturday, July 3-5, in Forest Park.

Campus & Community

College Prep Program’s inaugural class comes together as a ‘community of scholars’

The inaugural class of WUSTL’s innovative College Prep Program recently wrapped up its first two-week residential experience. The students will return during the summers of their junior and senior years to take college-credit classes. The new program prepares students for college and its challenges.

Business & Entrepreneurship

‘Hobby Lobby’ decision will have far-reaching effects, unintended consequences

Today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Hobby Lobby case is the corporate equivalent of the road to Damascus, says Elizabeth Sepper, JD, associate professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. “Many more corporations will find religion to opt out of regulation that affects their bottom line,” Sepper says. “Before Hobby Lobby, businesses lost claims to fire pregnant women, refuse to promote non-Christians, discriminate against gays, and pay below the minimum wage. “After Hobby Lobby, they seem likely to succeed.”

Happy July 4th weekend

Because of the holiday, the Record will not be published Friday. The Record staff wishes everyone a safe and happy July 4th weekend!

Business & Entrepreneurship

Poor physical, financial health driven by same factors

Poor physical health and financial health are driven by the same underlying psychological factors, finds a new study from Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.