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Center for Public Health Systems Science develops tobacco control user guide

The building blocks of successful tobacco-control programs are detailed in a new user guide developed by the Center for Public Health Systems Science at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. The guide recently was published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office on Smoking and Health, which funded the effort.

Record on hiatus for Thanksgiving holiday

The daily Record email takes a break for the Thanksgiving holidays after Tuesday, Nov. 21, and will resume publication Tuesday, Nov. 28. The Record staff wishes everyone a safe and happy Thanksgiving holiday.

Info session on Police Department Nov. 28

The Washington University Police Department is pursuing accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies Inc. As part of that process, employees and the public may offer comments about the department at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 28, at Ursa’s on the South 40. People also may comment by phone or in writing.

Kwon joins board of American Osteopathic Association

Jennie H. Kwon, DO, an assistant professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named the New Physician in Practice member of the American Osteopathic Association’s board of trustees.
Campus & Community

Seven faculty are 2017 AAAS Fellows

Seven faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis are among 396 new fellows selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society.
Science & Technology

Oxygen levels link to ancient explosion of life

A team of researchers, including a faculty member and postdoctoral fellow from Washington University, found that oxygen levels appear to increase at about the same time as a three-fold increase in biodiversity during the Ordovician Period, between 445 and 485 million years ago, according to a study published Nov. 20 in Nature Geoscience.