Having trouble reading this? View it as a web page.
If you’d like to view past issues, please see our archive.

December 2020
@WashingtonUniversity
What’s happening on and off campus today. For alumni, parents, and friends.
 

 SPOTLIGHT

ON CAMPUS
Hillman Hall’s flexibility key to resuming select in-person classes
Learn how the wide-open and adaptable spaces in the Brown School building named for alumni Thomas and Jennifer Hillman were repurposed for the pandemic.

 NEWS & FEATURES

RESEARCH
 Common OCD drug may prevent serious illness in COVID-19 patients
In medical school study, fluvoxamine helped patients well enough to be at home avoid hospitalization and supplemental oxygen.

PEOPLE
Three Washington University scholars named Rhodes finalists
These accomplished leaders were among an elite group from around the globe competing for the prestigious scholarship.

RESEARCH
Widening income gap means less variety on grocery store shelves
Olin School researcher suggests that as the middle class has been hollowed out, so has the number of products to choose from.

RESEARCH
 WashU engineers link SARS-CoV-2 transmission to air pollution levels
Multi-institutional team finds that even when pollutants are far below national safety standards, they cause virus to proliferate.

PEOPLE
 Professor’s latest exhibition opens at Contemporary Art Museum
Artist Tim Portlock’s depictions of life in postindustrial cities are shaped by the iconography of the American landscape.

RESEARCH
Discovery of cranium fossil fills in gaps about early human evolution
WashU anthropologists help find best-preserved specimen of microevolutionary anatomical change within early hominins.

GET INVOLVED!

Would you like to help Washington University build community, support students, and continue its cutting-edge research?

•   Volunteer your time and talent.
•   Make a gift of any amount.
•   Join the conversation in an alumni network.
 
Washington University in St. Louis University Advancement
One Brookings Drive, MSC 1210, St. Louis, MO 63130
alumniassociation@wustl.edu 866-988-7477

©2020. Washington University in St. Louis. All rights reserved.

This newsletter is prepared by University Advancement. It is intended to provide a brief summary of what is happening at the university.

If you have received this email from a friend and would like to be on our mailing list, please subscribe.
If you’d prefer not to receive @WashingtonUniversity in the future, please send us an email to unsubscribe.
Would you like to receive this email at a different address? Update your information.