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Olynyk named inaugural Medicine & Media Arts Initiative fellow

Patricia Olynyk, the Florence and Frank Bush Professor of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has been named inaugural fellow in The Medicine & Media Arts Initiative.

Performing Arts

New ‘Musical Lunch Box’ event Feb. 26

Six students from the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences will perform works by Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin, Schumann and Liszt at noon Friday, Feb. 26, as part of the department’s new “Musical Lunch Box” series. Intended to simulate the live concert experience, the performance will be filmed in a single take from the 560 Music Center’s E. Desmond Lee stage.

Medicine & Health

New strategy blocks chronic lung disease in mice

A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has uncovered a previously unknown role for exosomes in inflammatory respiratory diseases. The study has implications for finding new therapies.

Anthropology & Archaeology

Trust your gut: A healthy sense of disgust can prevent sickness

New research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Feb. 15, suggests that disgust could be the body’s way of helping people avoid infection.

Campus & Community

Flags lowered in memory of Americans who died of COVID-19

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff until sunset Friday, Feb. 26, in memory of the more than 500,000 Americans who have died of COVID-19 during the pandemic.

Awards & Notables

Cote named a National Academy of Inventors senior member

Pathologist Richard J. Cote, MD, the Edward Mallinckrodt Professor at the School of Medicine, has been elected a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors.

Campus & Facilities

Emergency communication system test planned March 4

Washington University will test its emergency communication system at 10 a.m. March 4. The test will take place unless there is the potential for severe weather that day or some other emergency is occurring at that time.

Awards & Notables

Kastor featured on C-SPAN’s ‘Lectures in History’

Peter Kastor, the Samuel K. Eddy Professor and chair of history in Arts & Sciences, was featured on C-SPAN’s “Lectures in History.”

Popular Culture

Baseball finally integrates its record book

The Newark Eagles were part of the Negro Leagues from 1936 to 1948. Here the players are in the dugout in 1939.

Gerald Early answers what the big deal is about including baseball stats from the Negro Leagues in Major League Baseball records.

Campus & Community

Life in the time of COVID

The Nussinov family — (from left) Maya, Tsitsi, Zohar and Ethan — walking their dog, Pi, in Clayton’s Oak Knoll Park. (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University)

In 2020, so much about what we know to be normal came to a grinding halt for the WashU community. One week in March, we’re looking ahead to spring break, and then suddenly it’s an unending hiatus. Yet the work of the university, and its families, goes on.