Month: January 2024

Members of the Greenwood Cemetery Preservation Association will receive the annual Rosa L. Parks Award during the university’s Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration at 2 p.m. Monday, Jan. 15, at Graham Chapel. 

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present “Kahlil Robert Irving: Archaeology of the Present” Feb. 23 through July 29. An internationally acclaimed artist raised and based in St. Louis, Irving frequently examines issues and topics ranging from memory, race and digital media to Black life and the politics of industrial manufacturing.

The Black Rep will launch its 47th season with “Hold On.” The world premiere drama, by British playwright Paul Webb, is based on his original screenplay for the Oscar-nominated film “Selma.”

At the university’s Board of Trustees meeting Dec. 1, numerous faculty members were appointed or promoted with tenure or granted tenure.

Todd A. Fehniger, MD, PhD, and colleagues Alice Y. Zhou, MD, PhD, Ryan C. Fields, MD, and George Ansstas, MD, all at the School of Medicine, have received $1.5 million from the Rising Tide Foundation for Cancer Research and the Melanoma Research Alliance.

A new study from the School of Medicine identifies a key feedback loop between the brain and the fat tissue that governs aging in mice. The research suggests that the loop’s gradual deterioration contributes to health problems typical of aging.

States that emphasized non-pharmaceutical interventions, such as distancing and mask wearing, fared better in curbing the spread of COVID-19, shows a forthcoming study from the Brown School.

Sleep helps restore the brain’s operating system to a critical state, according to new findings from biology and physics researchers in Arts & Sciences.

Certain populations of mosquitoes are more heat tolerant and better equipped to survive heat waves than others, according to new research from Washington University in St. Louis.

Educational reform should embrace learners’ diversity, provide equitable access to foster attendance and promote student interest in learning through child-centered teaching, finds a new study from the Brown School.