Thursday, March 23, 2017

Top Stories

Spinal cord stimulation relieves back pain without opioids

Doctors who treat back pain are exploring new approaches that help some patients avoid opioid drugs. One option at the Washington University Pain Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital involves stimulating the spinal cord with short pulses of electricity.

Scientist to discuss climate change next week

Climate scientist David Easterling, of the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration, will give an Assembly Series address next week. His lecture, “A Scientific View of Climate Change,” will be at 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 28, in Anheuser-Busch Hall.

Poet finds ‘safe space’ on campus to tell story

Poet Baba Badji is an immigrant and a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow. As The Ampersand explains, Badji came to the university to join a cohort of international writers in Arts & Sciences and has found a “safe space” here to pursue his writing.

The wonders of Pluto

William B. McKinnon, professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, will explore Pluto in delivering the McDonnell Distinguished Lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 29, in Whitaker Hall.

Events

4 p.m. Thursday, March 23

Robert Shaw film screening

4 p.m. Thursday, March 23

Annual Lowry Lecture: junk DNA

10 a.m. Friday, March 24

‘Navigating interdisciplinarity in the humanities’

8:30 a.m. Saturday, March 25

East Asian Languages conference on Cold War begins

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Campus Announcements

Engineering offers new master’s focused on health-care operations

The School of Engineering & Applied Science is offering a new master’s degree that will use engineering principles to dramatically improve health-care operations. The degree program will launch in fall 2017.

WashU in the News

At Trump’s D.C. hotel, a U.S.-Turkey relations conference stirs up ethics questions

NPR

Health and behavior problems can linger after child abuse

Fox News | Reuters

Cancer prevention can greatly reduce incident rates in America

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Campus Voices

‘Remembering (and forgetting) the February Revolution’

Hilah Kohen, a junior and Merle Kling fellow, is studying abroad in Moscow. She shares on the Center for the Humanities site her impressions about a significant day in Russian history, known as the February Revolution, and the lack of public commemoration of its 100th anniversary.

Notables

Four renowned illustrators have donated artworks to the D.B. Dowd Modern Graphic History Library, part of University Libraries, in honor of celebrated alumnus and illustrator Jack Unruh, who died last year.

Who Knew WashU?

Frederick Hartt's pink typewriter Question: Which professor left behind a pastel pink typewriter upon leaving Washington University?
Answer: A) A renowned Italian Renaissance scholar, author and art historian, Frederick Hartt was a university professor and curator from 1949-60. Hartt left behind a custom pastel pink Royal typewriter, which remains in the care of the Kemper Art Museum.
Congrats to this week’s winner, Krista Hyde, of Environmental Health & Safety, who will receive an “I Knew WashU” luggage tag!

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