Month: February 2024

The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences will launch “Humanities at Work: Graduate Internships for the Next Generation.” Supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the program aims to prepare doctoral candidates for a wider range of career pathways.

Nominations are now open to honor deserving staff members through Washington University’s Distinguished Honor Awards. The nomination deadline is March 15.

Inconsistent Medicaid enrollment was found to be associated with higher risk of death in pediatric cancer patients, according to a new study from the Brown School.

Jeffrey Zacks, the Edgar James Swift Professor in Arts & Sciences and a professor of radiology at the School of Medicine, has begun a two-year term as president of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Images from in and around the Washington University campuses.

The Knight Executive Education Center has completed renovations on 66 guest rooms and is holding an open house for the campus community from 3-6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 7.

Nandini Raghuraman, MD, a physician-scientist who specializes in caring for patients with complex high-risk pregnancies, has been named director of the Division of Clinical Research in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the School of Medicine.

Srikanth Singamaneni and Barani Raman, both professors at the McKelvey School of Engineering, led a team that harnessed the power of specially made nanostructures to enhance the neural response in a locust’s brain to specific odors and to improve their identification of those odors.

Research by Michael Frachetti in Arts & Sciences and researchers at Sichuan University in China explores how and why ancient communities built social relationships and cultural identities across the extreme terrain in Tibet.

The university has established a framework to examine issues of naming or renaming of buildings and other spaces, professorships and scholarships. People can submit requests for named features to be reviewed. Applications are open for two at-large members to join the Naming Review Board.