Who Knew WashU?
Question: WashU sociologist Jake Rosenfeld studies the labor movement. The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated in 1882 in New York. As of 2023, what percentage of American workers belonged to a union?
Answer: B) About 10% of workers belonged to a union. Organized labor reached its peak in the 1960s, when one in three workers were members.
Congrats to this week’s winner, Maddy Frank, a staff member in biology in Arts & Sciences, who will receive an “I Knew WashU” luggage tag!
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New computational tool sheds light on ‘wiggly’ proteins
WashU Medicine researchers led by Alex Holehouse have developed a novel method of predicting how certain hard-to-study proteins will behave, with potential implications for research and treatment of many diseases.
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Field Notes: South Pacific
WashU earth scientists in Arts & Sciences are mapping Earth’s interior and analyzing lava rocks from a volcanic hotspot near the islands of Samoa.
