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Older people with early, asymptomatic Alzheimer’s at risk of falls
Falls are the leading cause of fatal injuries in older adults, causing more than 800,000 hospitalizations and about 30,000 deaths in the U.S. every year. Some risk factors are well-known — advanced...
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Midwest Climate Summit kicks off Oct. 2
If the 12 states that comprise the Midwest were a country, they would be the fifth-largest greenhouse gas-emitting nation on the planet. On average, Midwest states lag behind the rest of the country on...
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Remembering Chancellor Emeritus William H. Danforth
Chancellor Emeritus William H. Danforth, MD, who served as chancellor for 24 of his more than 65 years of service to Washington University in St. Louis, died Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, at his home in...
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Solving a current mystery
Consumer demand has driven engineers to design batteries that are more compact while at the same time maintaining, or even improving, their capacity. On paper, it seems there is plenty of room to...
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Search begins for Washington University’s next vice chancellor for student...
Washington University in St. Louis will conduct a national search for its next vice chancellor for student affairs, beginning this fall. The new vice chancellor will succeed Lori S. White, who left the...
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Family care resources for faculty, staff
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed how all of us live our everyday lives. The stress of trying to balance the needs of our families and individual workloads can seem overwhelming at times,...
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Campus space in a COVID-19 world
Some 600 moveable yet durable outdoor chairs have been placed throughout the Danforth campus to give students more places to sit and socialize safely. (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University; Graphic...
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Funding climate action policies: Consumers weigh in
For decades, scientists have urged policymakers to take prompt action to address climate change, but their calls have largely gone unanswered. Now, as wildfires ravage the west and hurricanes batter...
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Replacing Justice Ginsburg
President Donald Trump’s apparent top picks to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court — Judges Amy Coney Barrett and Barbara Lagoa — would fall ideologically somewhere between Justices Neil...
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Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg
On Valentine’s Day 1979, while still a professor at Columbia University, Ruth Bader Ginsburg discussed the Equal Rights Amendment in a “Sexual Equality Under the Fourteenth and Equal Rights Amendment”...
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Hope in a time of uncertainty
The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed the ways we learn, collaborate and stay in touch — especially with colleagues around the world. It also has exposed other enormous societal fissures,...
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Prenatal cannabis exposure associated with adverse outcomes during middle...
While cannabis use during pregnancy is on the rise, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have found evidence that the resulting children are more likely to have psychopathology in middle...
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Antibodies protect against wide range of influenza B virus strains
Researchers have identified two antibodies that protect mice against lethal infections of influenza B virus, report scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Icahn School...
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Student health ambassadors promote masks, health checks and physical distancing
With hand sanitizer in one hand and a satchel of disposable masks slung over her shoulder, Washington University in St. Louis sophomore Cami Keahi approached two masked students sitting physically...
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Washington University begins work to examine public safety
A closeup view of Brookings Hall on the Danforth Campus. (Photo: James Byard/Washington University) It is vitally important that all members of the Washington University in St. Louis community feel...
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Plants without cellular recycling systems get creative in the dark
Deprived of sunlight, plants are unable to transform carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into sugars. They are essentially starved of one of their most important building blocks. The plant’s...
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Cancer centers to address pandemic’s impact on cancer prevention, treatment
A consortium of 17 U.S. cancer centers – including Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine – have come together to better understand the...
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‘Truths and Reckonings’
Frederick B. Schell (American, d. 1905), “Plantation police, or home-guard, examining passes on the road leading to the levee of the Mississippi River,” from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, July...
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Jess T. Dugan named 2020-21 Freund Teaching Fellow
Two photos by Jess T. Dugan. Left: “Bobbi, 83, Detroit MI, 2014.” Right: “Duchess Milan, 69, Los Angeles, CA, 2017.” (All images © Jess T. Dugan) Duchess Milan stands at the balcony, white hair coiffed...
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Living Earth Collaborative announces 2020 seed grant recipients
Collaborators from seven St. Louis area institutions will collaborate on biodiversity-related projects in locations ranging from Forest Park to the Congo Basin. (Photo: Kyle de Nobrega) The Living...
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