Month: October 2021

New research from the laboratory of Jonathan Losos begins to unravel one of the major mysteries of invasion biology: why animals that tend not to hybridize in their native range abandon their inhibitions when they spread into a new land. The study is published the week of Oct. 11 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Islands are hot spots of evolutionary adaptation that can also advantage species returning to the mainland, according to a study led by biologist Jonathan Losos in Arts & Sciences, published the week of Oct. 11 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

From its inception, the College Prep Program was designed to support talented students on their educational journeys, whether that path led to Washington University, the military or another college or program. Here, three members from the College Prep Program’s first cohort share more about their studies and successes. Marquise Butcher Audio engineering and entertainment business, […]

The Beyond Boundaries program invites WashU juniors and seniors to apply to Creative Collaborations, which provides grants of up to $1,000 to students who work together to produce a creative capstone project such as a book, social enterprise or fashion line.

Matthew A. Cruz, a predoctoral scholar in biochemistry and molecular biophysics and in the laboratory of Gregory Bowman at the School of Medicine, received a three-year $95,910 fellowship award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

As artificial intelligence becomes more incorporated into the medical field, rigorous evaluation of these methods is needed before they are introduced into clinical practice, a team led by Washington University researchers Abhinav Jha and Barry Siegel, MD, proposed.

Weicong Huang and John Whitaker, both from the Master of Landscape Architecture program in the Sam Fox School, have won national honors from the American Society of Landscape Architects.

The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded James Fitzpatrick a $600,000 grant to purchase a cutting-edge optical microscope for the Washington University Center for Cellular Imaging, expanding super-resolution imaging to a broader range of wavelengths.

Jhullian Jamille Alston, a predoctoral trainee in biochemistry and molecular biophysics and in the laboratories of Alex Holehouse and Andrea Soranno at the School of Medicine, received a predoctoral-to-postdoctoral fellow transition award from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).