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Brown School’s Race and Opportunity Lab recommends specific policing reforms
As the nation struggles with police violence, a new report from HomeGrown StL in the Race and Opportunity Lab at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis recommends reforms to build an...
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Lahiri receives first Sawyer professorship in mathematics
Soumendra Lahiri has been installed as the Stanley A. Sawyer Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. A ceremony was held earlier this year in Ridgley Hall to mark the...
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University introduces new personal safety app
Starting July 1, Washington University in St. Louis will offer its students, faculty and staff a new, free phone-based app designed to address and promote personal safety both on and off campus. WashU...
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Effort to screen potential COVID-19 antiviral drugs underway
Six months into the pandemic, people diagnosed with mild cases of COVID-19 still are told to isolate themselves and wait out the infection at home. Doctors monitor such patients so they can intervene...
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WashU Expert: How to document the protests
This photo, from an anonymous contributor, is part of the “Documenting Ferguson” archive at University Libraries. Americans across the nation are documenting today’s protests through photography and...
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COVID-19 demonstrates why wealth matters
While COVID-19 has impacted all individuals, the impact has not been equal. In a new national Socioeconomic Impact of COVID-19 survey, the Social Policy Institute (SPI) at Washington University in St....
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An emerging understanding of smell
How does the brain detect smells? To find out, you could rely on biological sciences, using high tech imaging methods, or studying anatomical diagrams. You could even get philosophical and ask, “What...
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Local gym moves classes to West Campus garage
Washington University worked with tenant TruFusion to transform the West Campus garage into a fitness studio during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photos: Joe Angeles/Washington University) One of the cruel...
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Davis, Luby receive 2020 faculty achievement awards
Adrienne Davis and Joan Luby will receive Washington University in St. Louis’ 2020 faculty achievement awards, Chancellor Andrew D. Martin announced. Davis, vice provost, the William M. Van Cleve...
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Washington University statement on ICE guidance on international students
We are disappointed in the announcement from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement regarding temporary exemptions to the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP). These requirements will have a...
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McDonnell Academy supports COVID-19-related global research
Washington University in St. Louis’ ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic is multifaceted and continues to evolve. It has taken campus, community and global approaches and includes...
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Study to examine social media’s effects on stress during COVID-19 pandemic
The impact of social media on anxiety and stress during the coronavirus pandemic is the focus of a new study led by mental health experts at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and...
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Experimental drug shows early promise against inherited form of ALS, trial...
An experimental drug for a rare, inherited form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has shown promise in a phase 1/phase 2 clinical trial conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St....
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Mothers’ paid work suffers during pandemic, study finds
When COVID-19 forced schools and daycares to shut down and millions of Americans to transition to working from home, some suggested the pandemic might equalize certain aspects of gender equality as men...
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Research shows how businesses can win more customers, influence your friends
Companies typically offer incentives directly to customers who refer friends. Google Apps, for instance, offers customers $15 for each new friend they recruit. And the video game World of Warcraft...
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Reconfiguring public space
Master of Urban Design students in the Sam Fox School’s Global Urbanism Studio investigate social distancing in St. Louis’ Delmar Loop on June 16, 2020. The outing represented the first time a Sam Fox...
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University supports suit challenging federal policy on international students
Washington University in St. Louis has filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of a lawsuit filed by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology challenging a federal policy...
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Global wildlife surveillance could provide early warning for next pandemic
The virus that causes COVID-19 probably originated in wild bats that live in caves around Wuhan, China, and may have been passed to a second animal species before infecting people, according to the...
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Rewriting history: New evidence challenges Euro-centric narrative of early...
In American history, we learn that the arrival of Spanish explorers led by Hernando de Soto in the 1500s was a watershed moment resulting in the collapse of Indigenous tribes and traditions across the...
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Social distancing and COVID-19: A law of diminishing returns
The first case of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the United States was in late January. By mid-March, “social distancing” had entered the public lexicon. People altered their routines and local...
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