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Advancing well-being with global partnerships
Washington University in St. Louis strives to help solve some of the world’s biggest problems, but the effort doesn’t occur in a vacuum. The university is fully engaged with a global network of...
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New life for endangered coastal lupine
Excavators and bulldozers unearthed invasive beachgrass from sand dunes at Point Reyes National Seashore in 2010. The removal has resulted in a large and lasting reduction in seed predation pressure...
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Entrepreneurship fellows selected
Two faculty members were named inaugural faculty fellows in entrepreneurship at Washington University in St. Louis. Vijay Ramani, the Roma B. and Raymond H. Witcoff Distinguished University Professor...
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Ritz Chamber Players in concert Feb. 16
The Ritz Chamber Players At age 16, violinist Kyle Lombard made his solo debut with the Kansas City Symphony. In the years since, Lombard — a faculty member in the Department of Music in Arts &...
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Health departments must plan for changing workforce, study finds
State health departments are lagging in planning for the replacement of retiring employees, according to a survey from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. Roughly 85 percent...
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Opening minds, doors, opportunities
After decades of working to help people with hearing loss, Nancy Tye-Murray, professor of otolaryngology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, had a realization: “If I don’t turn my...
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Getting to know Meg Jay
Jay What makes a person resilient? Is the ability to endure and thrive found within us, or something that must be learned and developed? Clinical psychologist and author Meg Jay has dedicated her...
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Despite odds, fish species that bypasses sexual reproduction is thriving
https://biomedradio-media.wustl.edu/embargo/Amazon%20molly%20.mp3 The very rare animals that reproduce asexually — only about one in 1,000 of all living vertebrate species — are thought to be at an...
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Every rose has its thorn — and its tick
East Coast forest sites overtaken by invasive multiflora rose (a), and without rose (b). (Image: Washington University, University of Delaware) When it comes to avoiding Lyme disease, know your forest....
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Happy Valentine’s Day, Washington University
Members of the all-male a cappella ensemble The Stereotypes sing their hearts out for Valentine’s Day. Love is in the air … and the lab … and the lecture hall. In celebration of Valentine’s Day, The...
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Turning ideas into action
Washington University in St. Louis’ first Day of Discovery & Dialogue was held in February 2015, six months after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson and the unrest and activism that followed....
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Race, insurance status linked to job loss after breast cancer
Job loss following early-stage breast cancer diagnosis is associated with race and insurance status, but not with any clinical or treatment-related factors, finds a new study from the Brown School at...
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Cutting off cervical cancer’s fuel supply stymies tumors
Cancer therapies have improved — in some cases dramatically — over the past two decades, but treatment for cervical cancer has remained largely unchanged. All patients receive radiation and...
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Wencewicz wins Sloan fellowship
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced Feb. 15 that Timothy A. Wencewicz, assistant professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been awarded a 2018 Sloan...
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Twin peeks
Haggling over fictional furniture in the 90-degree Ohio heat, more than 100 pairs of twins were integral in showing researchers, led by Washington University in St. Louis, the importance of negotiation...
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Study of smoking and genetics illuminates complexities of blood pressure
Analyzing the genetics and smoking habits of more than half a million people has shed new light on the complexities of controlling blood pressure, according to a study led by researchers at Washington...
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‘Call things like they are’
Die after me, all right? I don’t care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just … survive. Outlive me, please. — Barbara Writer, professor and drunk. Beverly Weston is a fading...
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U.S. government failure to prevent gun-related violence may violate...
Washington University in St. Louis School of Law students will conduct in-depth research examining U.S. government responses to gun violence and whether they violate America’s obligations under...
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Higher income level linked to police use of force against black women
Black women with higher incomes are more likely to experience a forceful police interaction during a street stop, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. “We...
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Search committee named for Teaching Center executive director
Provost Holden Thorp has formed a search committee to appoint an executive director for Washington University in St. Louis’ Teaching Center. The Teaching Center serves faculty from all academic...
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