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The View From Here 12.9.19

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WUSTL Key log-in page getting updated look

In mid-January, a revamped WUSTL Key log-in page will make its debut. The Office of Information Technology wanted users to know the update is legitimate. While functionality won’t change, the page will have better visuals, a streamlined interface and be more mobile-friendly.

Marketing

Philadelphia soda tax lacks fizz, study finds

Song Yao, associate professor of marketing in Olin Business School, and researchers from UCLA and Northwestern studied the effects of Philadelphia’s soda tax, which took effect in January 2017.

There’s a lot to like about the Senate privacy bill, if it’s not watered down

We can do better on privacy than a GDPR-lite, or the inadequate Wicker bill, and the Cantwell bill is a good, if imperfect, place to begin.

Science & Technology

Agonafer receives CAREER award for evaporation research

Damena Agonafer, assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, received a five-year $500,000 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for research into different modes of heat transfer during evaporation.

Curiel receives NIH grant to research use of viruses to deliver CRISPR machinery in locations in body

David T. Curiel, MD, PhD, the Distinguished Professor of Radiation Oncology at the School of Medicine, has received a $2.2 million grant from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support his lab’s research into ways to use viruses as vehicles to deliver the CRISPR gene-editing machinery to the correct […]

Richards paper wins award from privacy forum

A recent paper from Neil Richards, the Koch Distinguished Professor in Law at the Washington University School of Law, has been named one of five winners of the Future of Privacy Forum’s 10th Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award.

Students

Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts announces new full-tuition scholarships

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts is launching a new scholarship program designed to enhance recruitment and interdisciplinary exchange across its graduate degree programs. The Sam Fox Ambassadors Graduate Fellowship Program, which will welcome its inaugural class in fall 2020, will provide full-tuition waivers and accompanying travel stipends, as well as unique academic and professional opportunities, for 10 applicants each year, across its graduate degree programs.

Information security policies updated

The Office of Information Security at Washington University in St. Louis has recently revised and updated its policies to reflect changes in the information security landscape. Learn more on the office’s website.

Schaal named to agricultural research foundation

Barbara A. Schaal, dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences and the Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biology at Washington University, has joined the board of directors of the Supporters of Agricultural Research Foundation.