Month: March 2022

Analyzing data from thousands of young people, Joshua Jackson in Arts & Sciences finds the juvenile justice system is not rehabilitating kids.

The St. Louis Mediation Project, co-founded by Karen Tokarz, the Charles Nagel Professor of Public Interest Law & Policy at Washington University, received a $1.4 million grant from the Missouri Housing Development Commission to provide free mediations in eviction court and in the community pre-filing.

Albert H. Kim, MD, PhD, a professor of neurosurgery, has been named the inaugural William H. Danforth Washington University Physician Scholar. The School of Medicine’s new Physician-Scientist Investigators Initiative aims to attract the most talented physician-scientists.

New research from Washington University School of Medicine shows that blocking a major inflammatory pathway in pancreatic cancer makes the tumors sensitive to chemotherapy and a type of immunotherapy that helps the immune system’s T cells to attack cancer cells.

Alison Antes and Tristan McIntosh at the School of Medicine received a $2.1 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to support a project to advance early-career researcher excellence through leadership and management practices. 

Washington University staff members are encouraged to nominate colleagues for the 2022 Distinguished Service Honors awards on the Danforth and Medical campuses. The nomination deadline is March 25.

Tammy English, ​associate professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences, has been named a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

Kathleen Ann Schneider, a longtime administrative assistant in the Department of English in Arts & Sciences, died March 1, 2022. She was 73.

Barak A. Cohen, at the School of Medicine, received a four-year $1.28 million grant from the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study gene expression.