Year: 2021

A study from School of Medicine researchers, published in the journal Nature, has found evidence that the immune response to the first two COVID-19 vaccines authorized by the FDA is both strong and potentially long-lasting.

Cyrus Raji, MD, PhD, assistant professor of radiology and of neurology at the School of Medicine, received a three-year $2.3 million grant from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his research titled “Neuroinflammation and Alzheimer’s Disease Imaging Biomarkers in Midlife Obesity.”

Four Arts & Sciences undergraduate students have been selected for the Expanding Diversity in Economics Summer Institute inaugural cohort, hosted by the University of Chicago.

Brian Rauch, research assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, co-authored a study in Physical Review Letters that suggests that certain cosmic rays move through the galaxy differently. The research addresses fundamental questions about how matter is generated and distributed across the universe.

The virus that causes COVID-19 normally gets inside cells by attaching to a protein called ACE2. School of Medicine researchers have found that a single mutation confers the ability to enter cells through another route.

Mimi Calter, deputy university librarian at Stanford University, has been appointed vice provost and university librarian at Washington University, according to Provost Beverly Wendland. Calter will join the university in the fall.

Regina Abel, an instructor in occupational therapy and in medicine at the School of Medicine, died June 15 in St. Louis following a heart attack. She was 70. An expert in animal-assisted therapy, she focused on animals’ role in rehabilitation and education.

Four members of the Washington University community are among the 73 individuals selected by Focus St. Louis from the private, public and nonprofit sectors for its 46th Leadership St. Louis class.

Two researchers from the McKelvey School of Engineering received funding from NASA for atmospheric data research

“We often think about genres of love narratives, whether they’re films or novels, as frivolous,” said Jessica Rosenfeld, of Arts & Sciences. “But in the Middle Ages, love stories, love narratives, love songs, were invested with the highest seriousness.”