Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Top Stories

Graduated driver licensing laws linked to reduced teen drinking

State laws designed to help teens gradually ease into full driving privileges may have an unintended effect: lowering rates of teen alcohol consumption and binge drinking, new School of Medicine research finds.

Obituary: Sarah Longyear, sophomore, 19

Sophomore Sarah Longyear died by suicide April 22 in her hometown of Palo Alto, Calif. She was 19. Advisers remember her as a kind and curious student who excelled academically but struggled with depression.

New Family Business Program announced at Olin

Mahendra R. Gupta, dean of Olin Business School, recently announced a four-year, $1.09 million gift from Roger and Fran Koch and Paul and Elke Koch that will launch the Olin Family Business Program.

Weils receive Harris service award

The 2016 Jane and Whitney Harris St. Louis Community Service Award was presented to Anabeth and John Weil in recognition of the couple’s exemplary dedication in advancing educational, cultural and social-service institutions in the metropolitan area.

Events

11:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 27

Seminar on cannabis use, misuse

5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 28

‘Code’ documentary screening, discussion

7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 28

Wind Ensemble concert

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Washington People

Chris Stark

The assistant professor of music in Arts & Sciences discusses composing, the future of electronic music and the inspiration behind some of his work.

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WashU in the News

In age of privilege, not everyone is in the same boat

The New York Times

Brain cartography: modern-day explorers map mind’s wiring

Newsweek

Curry injury latest blow to Under Armour

CNBC

Researcher looks at race, trauma, mental health in north St. Louis

St. Louis Public Radio

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Campus Voices

Barmash edits book on the Exodus

Pamela Barmash, associate professor of Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew in Arts & Sciences, is co-editor of a new interdisciplinary book of scholarly essays on “Exodus in the Jewish Experience: Echoes and Reverberations” (Lexington Books).

Notables

classics symposium graphic Students studying classics in Arts & Sciences have been racking up honors this year, from a Merle Kling fellowship to an invitation to a classics seminar to Classical Association awards.

Who Knew WashU?

Question: What major piece of medical imaging equipment was first built at the School of Medicine?
Answer: D) PET scanner. In the 1970s, a team led by Michel Ter-Pogossian at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology developed the concept of positron emission tomography, or PET, and played a major role in designing and constructing the first PET scanner.
Congrats to this week’s winner, Terrence Tsou, a student in Arts & Sciences, who will receive an ‘I Knew WashU’ luggage tag!

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