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News for the Washington University Campuses & Community
Straight from The Source
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Wednesday, March 27, 2019
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Going deep: The ‘contagious energy’ of Opening Day
In celebration of Major League Baseball’s Opening Day tomorrow, we present a series of stories in which students and faculty look at the statistics, physics, business and cultural significance of America’s pastime.
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A new era in treating cancer
A few decades ago, cancer treatment consisted mainly of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Now, a deeper understanding of how our bodies fight disease is launching a promising new era in which cancer’s worst enemy may be our own immune systems.
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Faculty group to spur thinking on Better Together
The university has convened a faculty group to consider the Better Together proposal from various perspectives and areas of expertise and to offer opportunities for the campus community to engage in dialogue.
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Bateman receives award for Alzheimer’s research
Randall J. Bateman, MD, of the School of Medicine, has been awarded the Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick’s, Alzheimer’s, and Related Diseases. The honor is sometimes referred to as the Nobel Prize of Alzheimer’s research.
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More research planned on Child Development Accounts
The Brown School’s Center for Social Development is conducting a third wave of research on Child Development Accounts in Oklahoma. This wave provides an automatic progressive deposit and examines the accounts’ impacts.
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Events
11:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 27
5 p.m. Wednesday, March 27
7 p.m. Thursday, March 28
View all events →
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Campus Announcements
The university will test its emergency communication system, WashUAlerts, at noon Thursday, March 28. The test will take place unless there is potential severe weather or an emergency is occurring at that time.
The Office of Sustainability and the Knight Center will hold an electronics recycling and confidential paper shredding event from 8-10:30 a.m. Friday, March 29, on Snow Way, outside Knight and Bauer halls.
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Zeuler Lima, associate professor at the Sam Fox School, has published a book collecting the drawings of prolific and legendary modern architect Lina Bo Bardi (Princeton University Press).
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 Matthew Lew, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, is part of a team that received a $7.5 million five-year award under the U.S. Department of Defense’s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Program. The research aims to develop a new class of functional living electronics based on materials such as proteins and bacteria.
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Jason Yi, assistant professor of neuroscience at the School of Medicine, has received a prestigious 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship. Yi studies how genetic variations perturb key developmental programs in neuronal development, leading to disorders such as intellectual disability and autism.
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Who Knew WashU?
 Question: From 2008-2018, how many companies were founded by Washington University undergraduate alumni, according to the Skandalaris Center?
A) 77
B) 95
C) 178
D) 206
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