Month: May 2024

Carlos Cruchaga, a professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine, has shown that the protein sTREM2 plays a causal role in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, meaning that targeting the protein may affect the course of the disease.

Paid leave and employee well-being are the focus of a three-part policy series on family-friendly business practices put together by the Brown School’s Clark-Fox Policy Institute. “Creating a family-friendly workplace benefits both employees and businesses,” said Gary Parker, institute director.

Bettina Drake will be the inaugural faculty director of the St. Louis Confluence Collaborative for Community-Engaged Research, Teaching and Practice, effective July 1, Provost Beverly Wendland announced.

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

Parking & Transportation Services at Washington University inSt. Louis shares an update, including details about 2024-25 parking permits, a new office location and other reminders.

New findings on long COVID — long-term effects on health experienced by many who have had COVID-19 — offer both good and bad news, according to a study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care system.

Liam Brodie, a graduate student working with Mark Alford, a professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been selected to participate in the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program.

Three physician-scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have been newly elected to the Association of American Physicians.

Physicists in Arts & Sciences are helping to shape the theoretical framework behind exciting new experiments at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.

In the early days of conflict when tension and fear are heightened, new research from political scientists in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis finds women politicians are less likely to engage with the public and, when they do, are more likely to take on more nurturing roles.