Month: April 2022

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

Acclaimed South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho will perform works by Ravel and Chopin May 1 as part of the Department of Music’s annual Great Artists Series.

Washington University in St. Louis is among eight research institutions that came together to help launch the Taylor Geospatial Institute, a hub for big data analytics and computing.

Stuart A. Kornfeld, MD, the David C. and Betty Farrell Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the School of Medicine, has received the 2022 Roscoe O. Brady Award for Innovation and Accomplishment from the WORLDSymposium, a research conference dedicated to lysosomal diseases.

The First Year Center is now known as Student Transitions & Family Programs, a reflection of the department’s expanded role supporting all undergraduate day-school students at Washington University.

If Florida’s action to strip Walt Disney World of its status as a special tax district is indeed retaliatory against the company for its opposition to the state’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law, then Florida has plainly violated the First Amendment, says a constitutional law expert at Washington University in St. Louis.

Joseph Jez was installed as the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences during a ceremony April 4 in Holmes Lounge. He gave an installation lecture, “Exploring Nature’s Machinery.”

Washington University Libraries has announced the winners of this year’s Newman Exploration Travel Fund (NEXT) Award as well as the Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition.

Jason McClellan, of Tufts University, has been appointed assistant vice chancellor for university services at Washington University, announced Shantay Bolton, executive vice chancellor and chief administrative officer.

Three of four blood tests used to identify people in early stages of Alzheimer’s disease perform differently in Black individuals compared to white individuals, according to a new study from Washington University School of Medicine. Such differences may put Black patients at risk of misdiagnosis.