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News for the Washington University Campuses & Community
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$3 million to help expand Wolfram syndrome research
School of Medicine researchers have received a five-year, $3 million grant to study Wolfram syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that causes neurologic problems, diabetes and other serious conditions. The grant will help continue a Wolfram clinic.
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Don’t always credit/blame innovator behavior
A new study by a group of researchers, including Daniel Elfenbein of Olin Business School, used a computational model to interpret decision-making, learning and experiences that end in an entrepreneur’s success or failure.
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Campus Announcements
The Commencement Office is seeking volunteers for the December Degree Candidate Recognition Ceremony. The ceremony will be at 10 a.m. Dec. 8 in the Athletic Complex Field House.
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Obituaries
 David L. Kirk, professor emeritus of biology in Arts & Sciences and Institute for School Partnership faculty fellow, died Nov. 1 in St. Louis after a long illness. He was 84. Kirk spent a lifetime teaching and researching developmental biology and, in retirement, worked to improve the way evolution is taught in K-12 schools.
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Marie Griffith, director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, writes in the online journal Religion & Politics about the killings in Louisville, Ky., and in Pittsburgh. “Honoring the latest thirteen lives callously stolen by hate, and so many who came before them, requires audible, visible action, even among those made uncomfortable by public protest,” she said.
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 Christine Pham, MD, professor of medicine and of pathology and immunology at the School of Medicine, has been named director of the Division of Rheumatology in the Department of Medicine. She is working to develop nanomedicine approaches for arthritis and other inflammatory diseases.
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Research Wire
 Richard D. Vierstra, the George and Charmaine Mallinckrodt Professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, received a $304,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project titled “Phytochromes: Structural perspectives on photoactivation and signaling.”
Read more from the Research Wire →
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Who Knew WashU?
 Question: Irma Rombauer, who attended Washington University for a time, wrote and published which best-selling cookbook?
A) “Fannie Farmer Cookbook”
B) “The Joy of Cooking”
C) “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”
D) “Kitchen Confidential”
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