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News for the Washington University Campuses & Community
Straight from The Source
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Leaders use shortcut to assess who trusts them
A new study that included a pair of researchers from Olin Business School, Kurt Dirks and Andrew Knight, explored what underlies an accurate sense of trust in a business organization.
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‘I Made This’ series debuts with student songwriter
In the debut of The Record’s new series, “I Made This,” senior J.T. Bridges shares the story behind his song “Discord,” which he recorded at the Harvey Media Center with the help of student group High Note Music Industry Collective.
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Tuning optical resonators gives researchers control
Using a nanoparticle as a “tuning device,” researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering devised a way to control electromagnetically induced transparency — a feature of light that allows it to pass through opaque media.
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WashU Expert on applications’ vulnerabilities
Joe Scherrer, director of the university’s Cybersecurity Strategic Initiative, says the cyberattack on Jeff Bezos is nothing unusual, and such attacks are becoming more common. But there are things you can do to stay safe.
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Campus Announcements
Cheri LeBlanc, MD, executive director of the Habif Health and Wellness Center, provides an update to the university community about the novel coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, China. While there are no confirmed cases at the university, LeBlanc wants the community to be informed about the virus.
A university blood drive will be held Tuesday, Jan. 28. Donors can give blood from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Athletic Complex on the Danforth Campus and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Olin Gym on the Medical Campus.
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Obituaries
 Richard A. “Red” Watson, professor emeritus of philosophy in Arts & Sciences, died Sept. 18, 2019, in Wellesley, Mass. He was 88. Watson was a Descartes specialist, a novelist and a highly skilled spelunker.
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Mexican culture scholar Ignacio Sánchez Prado, of Arts & Sciences, writes an op-ed in The Washington Post criticizing the new novel “American Dirt” by Jeanine Cummins. He calls the book “a reminder of the deep ignorance regarding Mexico and Mexicans in U.S. culture.”
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 Photographer Jennifer Colten, senior lecturer in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, and Paul Tran, a senior poetry fellow in the Writing Program in Arts & Sciences, have won 2019 Artist Fellowships from the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis.
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 Timothy Miller, MD, PhD, the David Clayson Professor of Neurology at the School of Medicine, and a group of his colleagues have received the inaugural Healey Center International Prize for innovation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research from the Sean M. Healey & AMG Center for ALS at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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