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11.04.24

Images from on and around the WashU campuses.

Home to 6,500 trees, WashU Arboretum earns rare status

The WashU Arboretum, home to some 6,500 trees across the Danforth Campus, recently received Level III accreditation by the ArbNet Arboretum Accreditation Program.

Students

WashU to host two polling places

Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 5, and the WashU Athletic Complex is ready to welcome all voters who are registered in St. Louis County. For the first time, the Medical Campus also will host a polling place, at the McDonnell Medical Sciences Building, 4565 McKinley Ave., for voters registered in the city.

Neuroscience & Memory

Researchers solve medical mystery of neurological symptoms in kids

Researchers at WashU Medicine collaborated with an international team of doctors and scientists to identify the cause of a rare genetic disorder involving intellectual disability and brain malformations.

Neuroscience & Memory

Jin receives NIH grant to study congenital hydrocephalus

Sheng Chih (Peter) Jin, an assistant professor of genetics at WashU Medicine, has received a $3.2 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the genetic and molecular underpinnings of congenital hydrocephalus.

Awards & Notables

Four from radiology named Distinguished Investigators

Four WashU faculty members were named Distinguished Investigators by the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research.

Politics

Talk to address privacy, civil rights in health care

Melanie Fontes Rainer, director of the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, will discuss privacy and civil rights issues in health care at a Nov. 13 event hosted by the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy.

Medicine

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