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Medicine & Health

Making everyday decisions

A hand reaching for two glasses of wine.
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that some neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex assign value to options in everyday decision-making. The area’s neurons then can re-map to make different decisions when circumstances change.
Science & Technology

Back to health

Professor Lori Setton (right) and collaborators, including Pranali Tambe (left), a visiting research associate, are looking at new materials for regenerating soft tissue, which could lead to new therapies for back pain. (Photo: James Byard)
Biomedical engineer Lori Setton’s collaborative research is pioneering new ways of providing relief to those who suffer neck and back pain.

Women’s Society presents 2016 awards, scholarships

three women talking
Leaders of the Women’s Society of Washington University announced the winners of the Harriet K. Switzer Leadership Award and the Elizabeth Gray Danforth Scholarship during the group’s annual membership meeting April 19.

Strunk memorial service planned May 21

A memorial service for Robert Charles Strunk, MD, a pediatric allergist at the School of Medicine, will be held from 6:30-9 p.m. Saturday, May 21, in the Living World at the Saint Louis Zoo. Strunk died April 28.
Campus & Community

Eliot Society members gather for annual gala

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Members of the Eliot Society, who provide the largest source of unrestricted support to Washington University, gathered at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel April 21. Former first lady Laura Bush was keynote speaker, and the society’s Search Award was presented this year to retired medical school dean Larry Shapiro. Eliot Society president Gil Bickel welcomed the group of 700 and introduced the keynote speaker, former First Lady Laura Bush, who is a life-long advocate for literacy and education.

Classics’ Keane gives presentations on satire, intertextuality

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Catherine Keane, associate professor and director of graduate studies of classics in Arts & Sciences, recently presented a discussion, “The Frank, the Friendly, and the Fictional: Speech in the Fragments of Lucilius’ Satires” at Williams College in Massachusetts.
Campus & Community

Of friendship and freedom

After his escape, Archer Alexander found refuge with the ­Eliot family in their Beaumont farmhouse. (Washington University Archives)
The histories of Archer Alexander, a fugitive slave, and William Greenleaf Eliot Jr., the university’s first president, intersect in a dramatic and inspiring story of courage and compassion.