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Record expansion of U.S. hate groups slows under Trump administration
As President Donald Trump prepares to offer his first State of the Union address, a new analysis by a Washington University in St. Louis sociologist may explain why the pronounced, decades-long...
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Diane Victor, drawing with smoke
The images twist and curl like heat rising through air. Armed with candle and flame, South African artist Diane Victor creates delicate, ephemeral-seeming portraits of missing children, AIDS clinic...
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The genius of a place
Every site possesses a spirit, or “genius,” of its own. So believed Frederick Law Olmsted, the founder of American landscape architecture. In 1895, Washington University engaged Olmstead, Olmstead...
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Body clock disruptions occur years before memory loss in Alzheimer’s
https://biomedradio-media.wustl.edu/episodes/JAMA%20N%20.mp3 People with Alzheimer’s disease are known to have disturbances in their internal body clocks that affect the sleep/wake cycle and may...
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Beyond Boundaries gives students, faculty, space to experiment
Archeologists teach alongside engineers. Artists collaborate with doctors. Senior citizens and teenagers share in discussion groups. The Beyond Boundaries interdisciplinary program at Washington...
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Study finds strategies to encourage 50 percent tax-refund saving
The W-2s are arriving, and taxpayers are preparing to file their 2017 federal income taxes. For low- and moderate-income taxpayers, the possibility of a modest windfall looms: Will they receive a...
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Brass Tax: Cutting through the politics of tax reform
As Americans receive their 2017 tax statements and begin the slow march to filing their last under a fading tax system, as President Donald Trump concludes his first State of the Union with a great...
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Once, twice, six times a grocery shopper
If Americans fulfilled their java urges the same way they carefully shopped for groceries, they would visit five to seven various chain coffee shops regularly — for a blend of different categories. In...
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PhD in imaging science launched
The field of imaging science — marked by rapidly changing and improving technology — plays a critical role in applications ranging from cancer diagnosis to virtual reality. With the aim of training the...
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ID’ing features of flu virus genome may help target surveillance for pandemic...
The current influenza outbreak – the worst across the United States in nearly a decade – is worrisome but still far less dire than a pandemic flu, which could kill millions. Such pandemics are...
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Stroke recovery improved by sensory deprivation, mouse study shows
Researchers helped mice recover faster from stroke by clipping their whiskers (as shown in video). This temporarily shuts off neural signaling between the whiskers – an important sensory organ for...
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Lunar New Year: Year of the Dog presents Dai dance
For China’s Dai minority, the peacock is a symbol of both grace and power. That’s why choreographer Kristine Xu chose to stage a traditional Dai peacock dance for this year’s Lunar New Year Festival....
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Like Zika, West Nile virus causes fetal brain damage, death in mice
Two viruses closely related to Zika – West Nile and Powassan – can spread from an infected pregnant mouse to her fetuses, causing brain damage and fetal death, according to a new study from Washington...
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University community to come together Feb. 13-14 for Day of Discovery & Dialogue
The Washington University in St. Louis community will convene Feb. 13-14 for the fourth annual Day of Discovery & Dialogue event. This year’s theme is “We’ve Got to Find a Way: Staying Resilient in...
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Culturally-adapted intervention may help Hispanics with serious mental illness
The first study to examine the initial impact of a culturally-adapted health care manager intervention aimed at helping Hispanics with serious mental illness finds the intervention shows potential for...
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Series to focus on ‘Religion and Politics in an Age of Fracture’
John Inazu will take part in a panel discussion Feb. 6 on divisions in religion and politics. (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University) Bridging divisions in religion and politics will be the topic of...
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Honoring St. Louis’ Olympic legacy
Washington University in St. Louis will add another architectural jewel to its historic campus later this year when an Olympic Rings “Spectacular,” a five-ring sculpture, is installed at the end of...
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Altering Huntington’s disease patients’ skin cells into brain cells sheds...
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have transformed skin cells from patients with Huntington’s disease into the type of brain cell affected by the disorder. The...
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Board of Trustees grants faculty appointments, promotions
At the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees meeting Oct. 6, the following faculty members were appointed with tenure or promoted with tenure, effective that day unless otherwise noted....
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Police kill unarmed blacks more often, especially when they are women, study...
Blacks, especially women, are more likely to have been unarmed when killed by police than non-blacks, and that risk appears to increase in police departments with a greater presence of non-white...
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