The Record: Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Top stories

Research looks at partisan misperceptions

Research from political scientist Betsy Sinclair in Arts & Sciences reveals the surprising extent of partisan misperceptions. The results have important implications for understanding the consequences of increased polarization and partisan antipathy.

Neuroscience leaders tour research building site

Neuroscience leaders and others got an up-close look at the Neuroscience Research Building on the Medical Campus during a recent tour of the construction site. The project is expected to be completed in August 2023.

Art installation explores the River des Peres’ legacy

St. Louis has never known what to do with the River des Peres. Now a public art installation by Sam Fox School students is exploring the river’s key role in stormwater management as well as those moments of natural beauty that have improbably survived.

WashU Expert on ethics of sentient AI

Yevgeniy Vorobeychik at the McKelvey School of Engineering says discussions about artificial intelligence sentience are — and always will be — misguided.

Events

JUL

‘Building equitable data infrastructure’

10 a.m.–Noon Thursday, July 14

JUL

Tyson summer seminar: Camille Delavaux

4 p.m. Thursday, July 14

JUL

Kemper family workshop: the art of netsuke

1–3 p.m. Sunday, July 17

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WashU in the News

As the BA.5 variant spreads, the risk of coronavirus reinfection grows

The Washington Post

Did Larry Scott kill the Pac-12? The answer is more complicated than you might think

Los Angeles Times | Yahoo Sports

Opinion: People with chronic illness in US now risk having medication restricted

Bloomberg

Man has leg-lengthening surgery, and turns out he’s not alone

WWL Radio

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Washington People

Amy Hauft

Artist Amy Hauft, director of the College of Art at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has the most complex exhibition of her career on view at Mass MoCA in Massachusetts. She discusses “700,000:1 | Terra + Luna + Sol,” her working process and humanity’s place in a dangerous universe.

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Campus and community news

Research Wire

Living Earth Collaborative postdoctoral fellow Matthew Austin has published new research finding that climate change is affecting how violets reproduce.

Research Wire

A multi-institutional team led by Daniel Giammar at the McKelvey School of Engineering seeks to refine a method that would remove selenium from wastewater efficiently and cost effectively, thanks to a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Notables

Sándor J. Kovács, PhD, MD, a professor of medicine and of cell biology and physiology at the School of Medicine, has been elected an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Announcements

Student parking permits, Metro passes available

Student parking permit sales for fiscal 2023 and registration for student Metro U-Passes are available this week, Parking and Transportation Services announced.

Perspectives

‘A bacterium that is not a microbe’

The average bacterium is visible only with a powerful compound microscope. But a new discovery challenges the prevailing view of the boundaries of bacterial cell size, writes Petra Levin, a biologist in Arts & Sciences. How the bacterium coordinates growth and development is a mystery.

Science