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Psychology

Research suggests a better multiple-choice test

People often think about multiple-choice tests as tools for assessment, but they can also be used to facilitate learning. A new paper in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition offers straightforward tips for constructing multiple-choice questions that are effective at both assessing current knowledge and strengthening ongoing learning.

Who Knew WashU? 9.26.18

Question: How long did the 1904 Olympics, held on what’s now known as the Danforth Campus, last?

Siegel named fellow of nuclear medicine society

Barry Siegel, MD, professor of radiology and of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the university’s Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR), has been named a fellow of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.

Families can take part in Safe Trick or Treat Oct. 20​

St. Louis community members are invited to bring their children to Safe Trick-or-Treat from 1-2:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, on the South 40 area of the Danforth Campus. Students lead families through the residence halls for trick-or-treating along with Halloween crafts and games.

These images of women around Kavanaugh evoke a familiar alibi

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Whatever the outcome of the hearings and evaluation of the various testimonies, we need to resist the impulse to believe that people cannot live compartmentalized lives, across time and space. This is a hard lesson. Because if we trust and believe in someone who can do horrible things, it often makes us question ourselves.
Campus & Community

Olympic rings sculpture to be dedicated

It’s being billed as an event 114 years in the making. The site of the 1904 Olympic Games on the Washington University in St. Louis campus is getting international recognition with the dedication Friday, Sept. 28, of an Olympic rings sculpture that will sit permanently near historic Francis Field.
Campus & Community

Media Advisory: Reflections on Climate Change

Workshop “Reflections on Climate Change” begins at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, at Washington University in St. Louis and will address how the impacts of climate change must require partnerships between policy, advocacy, and industry. The event is sponsored by the International Center for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (InCEES).
Campus & Community

Rebuilding partnership between America and its universities

In “Our Higher Calling,” Holden Thorp, provost of Washington University in St. Louis, and Buck Goldstein, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, dispel many of the myths surrounding higher education — but also own where universities are failing students and communities.