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New Office of Scholar Programs opens in Women’s Building
First-year student Olivia Martin (left) talks with fellow first-year students Erica Williams (center) and Christian Henry at the new Office of Scholar Programs in the Women’s Building. (Photo: Joe...
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Study: Tax-return delay could hurt low-income families
Millions of low- and moderate-income Americans who claim certain tax credits will have to wait weeks longer than usual this year for their federal income tax refunds because of a new law aimed at...
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Jonathan Biss launches Great Artists Series Feb. 9
The trajectory is always different. In his final years, Frédéric Chopin (1810-49) moved from graceful Romantic reveries to bracing, dissonant textures. Robert Schumann (1810-56), his health in sharp...
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A message from Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton regarding recent immigration actions
To our Washington University community: I am writing about the immigration actions stemming from the executive order signed by the President on Friday. I am mindful of the need to maintain national...
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University joins Raise.me
Washington University in St. Louis has joined Raise.me, an innovative program that rewards low-income high school students for good grades, extracurricular activities and community service with...
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Medicaid enrollment growth higher in urban areas, new study finds
Enrollment in Medicaid grew more rapidly in metropolitan areas than in rural areas in states that did not expand the program under the Affordable Care Act, according to new research from the Brown...
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Online database aims to collect, organize research on cancer mutations
The body of knowledge on cancer genomics is massive and ever-expanding. But this wealth of potentially critical information is far less likely to be of help to patients if it is inaccessible to the...
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‘Mini-guts’ offer clues to pediatric GI illness
Using immature stem cells to create a miniature model of the gut in the laboratory, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Pittsburgh have...
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Early signs of anxiety, depression may be evident in newborns
https://biomedradio-media.wustl.edu/episodes/Rogers%20rs-FC%20.mp3 Early predictors of anxiety and depression may be evident in the brain even at birth, suggests a study at Washington University...
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Invigorated Supplier Diversity Initiative strengthens minority-owned...
Stephanie Smith (right), Washington University manager of supplier diversity, meets with Sondra Rotty, senior project manager with general contractor Tarlton at Bryan Hall. (Photo: Joe...
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Dakota Access pipeline focus of Buder Center symposium
One of President Donald Trump’s executive orders will advance the way for the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline project in North Dakota to move forward. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, tribes across the...
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Student launches site celebrating immigrant entrepreneurs
Olin Business School student Jordan Gonen launched CelebrateImmigrants.us in response to the executive order suspending immigration from seven nations. Studies show that 40 percent of America’s Fortune...
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A global community of scholars
Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton has spoken out recently regarding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and the executive order signed by President Trump on Jan. 27. In both of those...
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$4 million funds study of sickle cell disease in teens, adults
Over the past few decades, therapies for sickle cell disease have shifted this inherited blood disorder from its status as a fatal pediatric disease to a serious but manageable condition. But with the...
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Drug combination effective against chikungunya arthritis in mice
Combining a drug for rheumatoid arthritis with one that targets the chikungunya virus can eliminate the signs of chikungunya arthritis in mice in the disease’s earliest stage, according to researchers...
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Homans help families with support for the Brown School
Christine and Scott Homan Washington University in St. Louis has named the Homan Research Suite in Hillman Hall and the Homan Garden on the building’s northwest side following a $2 million commitment...
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‘The Content of Our Caricature’
Comics have long flown beneath the scholarly radar. But recent years have brought new attention, and increasing sophistication, to the academic analysis of comics and cartooning. In 2014, Rebecca...
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WashU Experts: The First 100 Days
From left, presidential candidate Donald Trump greets Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, his wife, Risa Zwerling Wrighton, Student Union President Kenneth Sng and Graduate Professional Council President...
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University concludes investigation of complaint submitted by women’s soccer team
Today, Washington University in St. Louis announced the conclusion of an investigation into a Dec. 14, 2016 complaint submitted by the university’s women’s soccer team. Following is a statement from...
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The power of tea
A compound found in green tea could have lifesaving potential for patients with multiple myeloma and amyloidosis, who face often-fatal medical complications associated with bone-marrow disorders,...
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