Year: 2022

The Sam Fox Ambassadors Graduate Fellowship Program, which each year provides full-tuition waivers for 10 outstanding graduate candidates in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has been permanently endowed thanks to a new $10 million pledge from the Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation.

Applications for faculty members whose research area focuses on race and ethnicity are open, the Office of the Provost announced. Applications are due by Oct. 3.

Joseph Reid, Jr., who had been a master carpenter at Washington University for 42 years, died Saturday, Aug. 20, in Branson, Mo. Funeral services will take place Saturday, Aug. 27.

A rumination on space and the human capacity to imagine.

Nicole Gore has been appointed associate dean for student conduct and community standards at Washington University in St. Louis, announced Robert Wild, associate vice chancellor for student affairs. Gore had served as senior assistant dean for Arts & Sciences. Gore’s appointment took effect Aug. 15. 

Washington University School of Medicine researchers have found a new druggable pathway, in mice, that potentially could be used to help prevent Alzheimer’s dementia.

New research from the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences in Arts & Sciences indicates that fear-based messaging may result in mixed effects when it comes to public health.

Biologists in the laboratory of Hani Zaher in Arts & Sciences examined the modified nucleotides used in COVID-19 vaccines. The modifications faithfully produce the protein products as designed, a welcome sign for future RNA therapeutics.

Researchers from the McKelvey School of Engineering discover the conditions inside tiny pores can have big consequences for chemistry.

A National Science Foundation grant will support the research of Zhen “Jason” He at the McKelvey School of Engineering as he works to develop a more economically viable, sustainable waste conversion technology for wastewater.