Friday, May 6, 2022
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Top stories
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| A new grant awarded to School of Medicine researchers will fund research investigating the role of the immune system in heart failure. Finding ways to harness beneficial immune cells could lead to new therapies that encourage the heart to heal after injuries. |
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| Brett Drake, an expert on child welfare, has been installed as the inaugural Professor of Data Science for the Social Good in Practice at the Brown School. Drake researches matters of child welfare with a focus on early-intervention cases of child neglect. |
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| Daniel E. Goldberg, MD, PhD, a renowned researcher in molecular parasitology at the School of Medicine, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Election to the academy is among the highest honors awarded to a U.S. scientist or engineer. |
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Reading week at WashU
What are WashU students doing during reading week? Arts & Sciences and Olin junior Amanda Sherman hits the Danforth Campus to find out. She meets students who have scored big summer internships, performed in campus shows and survived organic chemistry.
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WashU in the News
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Campus and community news
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Matthew Bersi, assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, will use tools from engineering and biology to investigate blood vessel stiffening from high blood pressure with a Career Development Award from the American Heart Association.
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Eileen G’Sell, senior lecturer in Arts & Sciences, has published two pieces on French filmmaker Céline Sciamma as well as the Current Affairs essay “What Do Women Really Deserve?” |
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Three science writers in Medical Public Affairs at the School of Medicine — (from left) Julia Evangelou Strait, Tamara Bhandari and Kristina Sauerwein — were honored by the Association of American Medical Colleges for writing excellence at the organization’s recent Group on Institutional Advancement annual meeting. |
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| Announcements Parking and Transportation Services shares end-of-year updates, including parking and shuttle changes due to Commencement, Danforth Campus parking permit availability for WashU faculty and staff, summer shuttle schedules and more. |
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Perspectives
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Joslyn Richardson, a math instructional specialist with the university’s Institute for School Partnership, writes about her personal journey with math as first a learner and then a teacher, as well as how to encourage students at all levels to have a positive relationship with math.
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Who Knew WashU?
Question: Who has not given a Commencement speech at WashU?
Answer: D) Eleanor Roosevelt never gave a Commencement address at WashU. She did, however, deliver two lectures at the university in the 1950s.
Congrats to this week’s winner, Phyllis Dunn, who works in Accounting Operations and will receive an “I Knew WashU” luggage tag!
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