Take part in Active Transportation Month activities
As part of Active Transportation Month in October, the Sustainability, Parking & Transportation, and Operations & Facilities Management offices are hosting two commuter fairs and a commuter challenge starting Monday, Oct. 17.
HomeGrownSTL wins Social Justice Innovation Award
HomeGrown STL, a Brown School program aimed at improving community-level capacity to reduce inequality in Black adolescents’ healthy transition to adulthood, has won an inaugural Social Justice Innovation Award from financial firm Morgan Stanley and the nonprofit Centri Tech Foundation.
COVID messaging: caring or condescending?
Research from the lab of Brian Carpenter, in Arts & Sciences, suggests older adults understood that sometimes-unflattering COVID-19 messaging came from a place of caring and compassion.
How do tired animals stay awake?
New School of Medicine research provides clues to falling fast asleep — or lying wide awake. Studying fruit flies, the researchers found that brain neurons adapt to help the flies stay awake despite tiredness in dangerous situations and help them fall asleep after an intense day.
NIH grant supports Jha’s work on ethics of AI in imaging
A $314,807 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will support Abhinav Jha’s interdisciplinary work looking at the ethics of artificial intelligence implementation in the medical sphere.
Department of Medicine names diversity, equity leaders
Felicia Gomez, Jesus Jimenez and José Sáenz, all at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, have been appointed to diversity, equity and inclusion leadership positions in the school’s Department of Medicine.
Before test results, signs of COVID-19 are in water systems
Research from the lab of Fangqiong Ling at the McKelvey School of Engineering finds SARS-CoV-2 material in wastewater reflects illnesses in communities. It also helps establish guidance for future studies.
Venus balloon prototype aces test flights
Paul Byrne, associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, is a science collaborator for a prototype aerial robotic balloon, or aerobot, built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Near Space Corp.
Post-Dobbs, Supreme Court’s legitimacy at risk
Public dissatisfaction with the Supreme Court’s rulings and its performance has been growing. New research by political scientist James Gibson in Arts & Sciences suggests the controversial Dobbs decision may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Senior Otto Brown wants WashU to vote
Senior Otto Brown wants to do everything he can to help students exercise their right to vote Nov. 8. And by everything, Brown means everything.
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