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The Justice Department suddenly changed its mind about the Constitution to defend Trump’s businesses

If Justice Department lawyers are going to say that they “represent the United States,” they better have the interests of the country — not the financial interests of the president — at heart.

Campus & Community

Combining law and medicine

Testifying on U.S. gun violence in Bogota, Colombia. Presenting on privacy in the digital age. Writing a dissertation on clinical whole-genome sequencing data. Making the Dean’s List. All in a day’s work for Jiyeon Kim, who will be graduating with a doctor of law from the School of Law and who plans a career focused on health and technology law and policy.

Campus & Community

Class Acts: Committed to cultural understanding

Entering college, Haley Allen knew she wanted to join ROTC so she could be an officer in the U.S. Army. But an ROTC trip Tanzania sparked a passion for Swahili and East African culture and history. She graduates this month with a degree in international studies and hopes to serve in Africa after completing helicopter training at Fort Rucker, Alabama.

Campus & Community

Colonna, Ley elected to National Academy of Sciences

Marco Colonna, MD, the Robert Rock Belliveau, MD, Professor of Pathology (left), and Timothy J. Ley, MD, the Lewis T. and Rosalind B. Apple Chair in Oncology, both at the School of Medicine, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The new members were announced April 30.

Prescription drug affordability

A final judgment invalidating the entire Affordable Care Act as unconstitutional would not only harm those in the individual market or Medicaid expansion—but would also jeopardize the ability of even more Americans to afford their prescription drugs.

Medicine & Health

$5.1 million to target silent cause of heart attacks, strokes

The School of Medicine’s Yongjian Liu has received an Emerging Investigator Award to find ways to detect plaque at risk of shedding fragments that could cause heart attacks or strokes.

University Libraries awards NEXT funding

Washington University Libraries has awarded the second annual Newman Exploration Travel Fund (NEXT) scholarships and grants to seven people, including faculty, staff and students.

Medicine

Antibiotics may treat endometriosis

Researchers at the School of Medicine have found that treating mice with an antibiotic reduces the size of lesions caused by endometriosis. The researchers are planning a clinical trial to test the strategy in women who have the painful condition.

Campus & Community

‘Lessons learned’ from engaging in Africa

Washington University in St. Louis is committed to engaging with its global partners to help address our biggest challenges together. This spirit of collaboration was evident at the inaugural meeting of the Africa initiative, held April 23 on the Danforth Campus.

Science & Technology

Pregnancy shifts the daily schedule forward

New research from Washington University in St. Louis finds that women and mice both shift their daily schedules earlier by up to a few hours during the first third of their pregnancy. The new study shows how impending motherhood induces changes in daily timing of a mother which, when disrupted, may put a pregnancy at risk, as reported in the Journal of Biological Rhythms.