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COVID-19 job losses impacted early withdrawal from retirement accounts

illustration of hand with coins, clock, "early withdrawal" note

Having a robust emergency savings fund could help people weather financial shocks, such as job loss during the COVID-19 pandemic, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

Performing Arts

Hotchner Festival presents two new plays

WashU playwrights Zach Berger and Frauke Thielecke will present world-premiere staged reading as part of the 2024 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival.

Health & Society

Equity in public health: a focus on technology, workforce development

Sandro Galea, dean designate for Washington University in St. Louis’ planned School of Public Health, will provide a first look at his vision for the new school at the Public Health at WashU Annual Conference Oct. 21-22.

Awards & Notables

Durkee book named Best Edited Volume

“States, Firms, and Their Legal Fictions,” written by MJ Durkee, the William Gardiner Hammond Professor of Law, was named Best Edited Volume by the American Branch of the International Law Association.

Medicine

WashU Medicine leads two major pandemic preparedness research projects

chikungunya, dengue and parainfluenza viruses

Two grants totaling $30 million a year for three years support efforts to design vaccines and drugs for understudied virus families. WashU Medicine scientists are leading the efforts.

Engineering

Understudied protein blobs have big effect on cellular function

an image of protein condensates inside a cell

Researchers from WashU and Duke University have shown that the formation of biological condensates affects cellular activity far beyond their immediate vicinity.

Awards & Notables

Two WashU faculty honored by biochemistry group

Two WashU faculty members, Benjamin Garcia and Rohit Pappu, have received annual awards from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Small business plans should include ownership transition support

Peter Boumgarden, director of Olin Business School’s Koch Family Center for Family Enterprise, discusses Vice President Kamala Harris’ plan to expand the small business tax credit and other ways in which the government can support existing small businesses.

Students

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Images from on and around the WashU campuses.

Awards & Notables

Robinson, Schwarz recognized by radiation oncology society

Julie Schwarz (left) and Clifford Robinson

Two professors of radiation oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis — Clifford G. Robinson, MD, and Julie K. Schwarz, MD, PhD — have been named fellows of the American Society for Radiation Oncology.