Year: 2022

Mungai Mutonya in Arts & Sciences has received a second fellowship from the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program to continue the collaborative educational project initiated at the University of Nairobi during his 2021 fellowship.

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have shown that an experimental nanoparticle-based drug therapy protects mice from sudden death due to the rupture of a major blood vessel in the abdomen, pointing the way toward a new strategy for treating deadly abdominal aortic aneurysms.

David Warren, a grant analyst in the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at Washington University in St. Louis, died July 17, 2022, at his home in Olivette, Mo. He was 66.

Make peace with food. Honor your hunger. Reject a diet mentality. These are the important lessons that Rebecca Miller, assistant director for nutrition and dietary wellness at Washington University Dining Services, shares with new students.

Washington University in St. Louis has joined with 14 other universities in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court as it prepares to hear arguments in two cases challenging longstanding precedent that allows universities to consider race and ethnicity in admissions decisions.

Arts & Sciences’ new internal grant program, “Seeding Projects for Enabling Excellence & Distinction” (SPEED), aims to spur novel and impactful research, scholarship and creative practice initiatives. Leaders have chosen the first cohort of grant winners.

Nathan Singh, MD, an assistant professor in the Division of Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine, has received a Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.

Abhinav Jha and his collaborators have developed a way to measure the distribution of dangerous radiation associated with cancer treatments.

An interdisciplinary team led by the lab of Srikanth Singamaneni has developed a new way to better visualize the proteins secreted by cells.