Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018

Top Stories

Pediatric physician-scientists struggle for funding

A study that included the School of Medicine has found that most National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants awarded to researchers in pediatrics during the past five years have been limited to physicians in senior positions at a small number of institutions.

A view of the east end project’s first six months

Take a visual journey through a series of photos chronicling the first six months of the construction project transforming the east end of the Danforth Campus.

Pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque in concert Sunday

Sibling pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque will perform four-hand works by Igor Stravinsky, Philip Glass and Bryce Dessner Sunday, Jan. 28, as part of the university’s Great Artists Series.

Events

4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 25

‘Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart’ screening

5:45 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 25

Skandalaris Center spring info session

4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 27

Medical Center winter concert

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WashU in the News

Surgery patients can help prevent opioid abuse

Reuters

Four St. Louis hospitals work to end cycle of violence

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis Area Brain Bee takes teens inside the human mind

STL Parent

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Campus Voices

‘Why the Logan Pauls of the world can push the boundaries of privacy and good taste’

Neil Richards, a privacy law expert at the School of Law, writes an opinion piece in The Hill about the evolution of social media and where and how the law needs to catch up with tools of the digital age.

Notables

Mark McDaniel, professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences, is co-recipient of a 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Conference of Prospective Memory. Prospective memory involves remembering to perform a planned action or recall a planned intention at some future point in time.

The Record