Center leaders honor George Floyd on anniversary of his killing
Black Lives Matter flags wave on the lawn of Brookings Hall. The Center for Diversity and Inclusion organized the May 25 display. (Photo: Danny Reise/Washington University)
May 25, 2021 SHARE
In commemoration of the one-year anniversary May 25 of the killing of George Floyd, the leaders of Washington University in St. Louis’ Center for Diversity and Inclusion planted Black Lives Matter flags on the Brookings Hall lawn.
The flags were planted in the shape of 9:29 in recognition of the nine minutes and 29 seconds that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on the neck of George Floyd. A jury on April 20 convicted Chauvin of murder in Floyd’s death.
Made in the Shade or Fun in the Sun Details 25 May 2021
New insights into how phytochromes help plants sense and react to light, temperature
Plants contain several types of specialized light-sensitive proteins that measure light by changing shape upon light absorption. Chief among these are the phytochromes.
Phytochromes help plants detect light direction, intensity and duration; the time of day; whether it is the beginning, middle or end of a season; and even the color of light, which is important for avoiding shade from other plants. Remarkably, phytochromes also help plants detect temperature.
New research from Washington University in St. Louis helps explain how the handful of phytochromes found in every plant respond differently to light intensity and temperature, thus enabling land plants to colonize the planet many millions of years ago and allowing them to acclimate to a wide array of terrestrial environments.
Personnel Moves: Encompass Health Names New CEO
Plus, Ketchum adds a new chief client operations officer and Eyemart Express and The Integer Group welcome new growth and development execs.
By
Mariah Terry
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Business & Economy
May 25, 2021
2:00 pm
Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of City View
Kyllan Cody
Chief Executive Officer
View As CEO, Kyllan Cody will oversee Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of City View’s daily operations while ensuring quality patient care at the 77-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility in Fort Worth. Cody comes to Encompass from NueHealth, where she was most recently a healthcare management consultant for more than two years. Before NueHealth, Cody was CEO of Cook Children’s Surgery Center for nearly five years, vice president of operations at Methodist Charlton Medical Center in Dallas for four years, and chief operating officer at Dallas Regional Medical Center for nearly four years.
In Ken Burnsâ 1994 epic historical documentary âBaseball,â Gerald Early recounts how much the âStar Spangled Bannerâ is intertwined with American sports culture.
Early, a professor of English and African American studies at Washington University in St. Louis and a writer and critic of American culture, recalls how he and his friends, young African Americans growing up in Philadelphia, would emulate how baseball games began at professional venues they venerated â like old Connie Mack Stadium in Philly. Before Early and his pals would begin their sandlot games, they sang and hummed the National Anthem.
Later in his life, Early no doubt had soul-searching moments about black struggles in America, but the memories he shared of the National Anthem show how the composition is entwined in the fabric of America.