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News for the Washington University Campuses & Community
Straight from The Source
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COVID-19 vaccine trials planned at WashU, SLU
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and the Saint Louis University Center for Vaccine Development have joined the effort to find a COVID-19 vaccine that can prevent the illness.
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Social distancing and diminishing returns
Modeling from the McKelvey School of Engineering using March data shows how social distancing could have better been implemented. The key? Longer periods of distancing would have helped — but only to a point.
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Study shows engaged workers should dare to daydream
Two Olin Business School researchers and another from Pontificia Universidad Católica in Chile found that daydreaming carries significant creative benefits — especially for those who identify with their profession and care for the work they do.
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Rethinking the global studio
From retail businesses to international supply chains, the Sam Fox School’s 13-week Global Urbanism Studio explores how the COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping urban space.
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Events
Noon–2 p.m. Wednesday, July 22
12:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 22
12:30 p.m. Thursday, July 23
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Campus Announcements
The Divided City 2020 initiative will award multiple grants of up to $10,000 to individuals and organizations in the St. Louis metro region engaged in community work or creative practice related to urban segregation. Virtual information sessions will be held July 29 and Aug. 11. Applications are due Aug. 26.
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Obituaries
 Cindy Lynn Norman, business office operations supervisor at the Brown School, died in her sleep July 15. She was 50. Norman worked at Washington University for 26 years.
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Cecelia L. Calhoun, MD, at the School of Medicine, co-writes an op-ed published in USA Today about how Black medical students and health-care workers can change the health-care system to end racial disparities in medicine.
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 The McKelvey School of Engineering’s Damena Agonafer is one of 85 early-career engineers selected to attend the National Academy of Engineering’s 26th annual US Frontiers of Engineering symposium. Attendees were nominated by fellow engineers or organizations.
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Research Wire
The Brown School’s Fred Ssewamala and Proscovia Nabunya have received a two-year $425,000 award from the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to address HIV/AIDS-associated stigma among adolescents in southwest Uganda.
Read more from the Research Wire →
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