Who Knew WashU?
Question: The Sam Fox School is celebrating 20 years, but its components have been around much longer. The College of Art was the first professional, university-affiliated art school in the U.S. When was it founded?
Answer: B) 1879. The Kemper Art Museum was founded in 1881, and the College of Architecture was established in 1910.
Congrats to this week’s winner, Matthew Schooley, who works in University Advancement and will receive an “I Knew WashU” luggage tag!
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Tool to predict crop instability to be developed at WashU, Arizona State
Nathan Jacobs, a computer scientist at WashU McKelvey Engineering, and collaborators plan to develop a geospatial artificial intelligence tool to find early signs of instability in crop production.
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A welcome instance of hope
Evidence from a small island in Indonesia points to the successful elimination of a parasitic worm that causes a devastating tropical disease.
