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News for the Washington University Campuses & Community
Straight from The Source
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Schaal to conclude Arts & Sciences deanship
Barbara A. Schaal, dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences and the Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor of Biology, intends to step down as dean by the end of the 2019-20 academic year, according to Chancellor-elect Andrew D. Martin.
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Obese mouse mothers trigger heart problems in offspring
A new study from the School of Medicine found that a high-fat, high-sugar diet in mouse mothers before and during pregnancy causes problems in the hearts of their offspring, and that such problems are passed down at least three generations.
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Rasmussen’s publication solves monkey mystery
Nearly five years after his death, colleagues of Arts & Sciences anthropologist David “Tab” Rasmussen are recognizing his contributions by listing him as first author on a primate evolution paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Medications to treat opioid addiction not widely used
Medications to treat opioid use disorder are safe and effective, but most people who could benefit do not receive the treatments, finds a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The Brown School’s David Patterson Silver Wolf was among the authors.
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Campus Announcements
The university community is gearing up for the next blood drive Wednesday, April 3, with locations at the Athletic Complex on the Danforth Campus and at Olin Gym on the Medical Campus. Students can sign up as part of a student group to donate or volunteer and compete to have the most participation.
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Darrell Hudson, of the Brown School, writes in a column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that racism affects not just individual behaviors, but the systems that lead to inequality in everything from education to health. Hudson is also co-director of the Collaboration on Race, Inequality, and Social Mobility in America, which is wrapping up its inaugural conference today.
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 Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr., associate professor of women, gender and sexuality studies and of African and African-American studies, both in Arts & Sciences, will be inducted into the Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars during a ceremony April 4 at Morehouse College in Atlanta.
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 Vladimir Kefalov, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the School of Medicine, has been awarded the 2019 Bressler Prize by the Lighthouse Guild, an organization dedicated to reducing the burden of living with vision loss.
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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?
Answer: D) Over the last 10 years, graduates have started 206 companies. The Skandalaris Center, established in 2001, offers innovation and entrepreneurship-related courses and programs.
Congrats to this week’s winner, Yvette Drury Dubinsky, an alumna who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees here and will receive an “I Knew WashU” luggage tag!
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