Year: 2021

The McKelvey School of Engineering’s Nathaniel Huebsch will use a nearly $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the most common cause of sudden death in young people.

A new, drug-free technology developed in the lab of Jianjun Guan at the McKelvey School of Engineering helps speed up the healing process of diabetic wounds.

All Washington University in St. Louis faculty, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and trainees are eligible for a free membership to the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity, a national leader in professional development, training and mentoring.

Sheretta Butler-Barnes, associate professor at the Brown School, has received a nearly $700,000 three-year grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “Black Parents’ Racial Socialization Competencies and Youth Outcomes in Response to Racial Violence.”

Research by Michael Bechtel in Arts & Sciences examines how personal exposure to natural disasters and policy knowledge affect voters’ support for long-term disaster preparedness.

A team from the McKelvey School of Engineering and the School of Medicine will use a $3.12 million grant to improve brain imaging to better understand stroke recovery.

The lab of Fuzhong Zhang has borrowed from synthetic chemistry to develop a platform enabling bacteria to build a synthetic muscle fiber.

The 1,994 members of the Washington University in St. Louis Class of 2025 may still be new to one another, campus and St. Louis. And still, Convocation in Brookings Quadrangle on Saturday, Aug. 28, served as a homecoming.

As tensions continue to run high in the Middle East, a new study from the Brown School finds that adolescents from the conflict-affected region who are residing in the United States have lower levels of resilience and a heightened risk of suicide ideation compared to their American-born peers.

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum is now accepting proposals for the spring 2022 Teaching Gallery exhibition. The deadline for proposals is Sept. 7. The gallery is dedicated to exhibiting works from the museum’s collection with direct connections to WashU courses.