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Trump has the worst record at the Supreme Court of any modern president

As Americans lose confidence in democratic institutions at the national level, the country’s least democratic branch of government looks better and better.

Reminders about upcoming Aug. 4 primary

The Gephardt Institute reminds the campus community about the upcoming Missouri election Aug. 4. Those who wish to vote absentee or by mail must request a ballot from their local election authority by Wednesday, July 22.

Center for Humanities awards graduate student fellowships

The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences has awarded six 2020-21 graduate student fellowships. Disciplines range from literature to languages to anthropology.

Organizational Behavior

Why dreaming at work may be good for your career

Two researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and another from Pontificia Universidad Católica in Chile found that daydreaming carries significant creative benefits, especially for those who identify with their profession and care for the work they do.

Gross receives NIH grant to support biomedical projects

Michael Gross, professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences and of immunology and internal medicine in the School of Medicine, received a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support a biomedical mass spectrometry resource and ongoing biomedical projects.

Science & Technology

Social distancing and COVID-19: A law of diminishing returns

Modeling from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis shows how social distancing could have better been implemented. The key? Longer periods of distancing would have helped — but only to a point. More needed to be done.

Anthropology & Archaeology

Rewriting history: New evidence challenges Euro-centric narrative of early colonization

New research from Washington University in St. Louis provides evidence that Indigenous people continued to live in southeastern U.S. and actively resist European influence for nearly 150 years after the arrival of Spanish explorers in the 1500s.

Health & Society

Gut bacteria protect against mosquito-borne viral illness

A new study from Washington University School of Medicine has found that mice infected with Chikungunya virus get less sick and are less likely to transmit the virus to mosquitoes if they have healthy gut microbiomes.

Obituaries

Obituary: Nancy Rubin, longtime employee, 58

Nancy Rubin, longtime administrative assistant in the Department of Art History & Archaeology in Arts & Sciences, died of cardiac arrest June 27 at St. John’s Mercy Hospital in St. Louis. She was 58.

Campus & Community

Administration rescinds rule on international students

The Trump administration on Tuesday quickly rescinded the July 6 policy directive that would have prohibited international students from being in the United States if all of their classes were online. Washington University supported a lawsuit filed by Harvard and MIT challenging the policy.