Month: August 2024

Rachel Sachs, a WashU professor of law, has been appointed to the Illinois Advisory Council on Financing and Access to Sickle Cell Disease Treatment and Other High-Cost Drugs and Treatments.

During his four years in office, Joe Biden was hailed as the most pro-union president in recent history. But whether his record translates into votes for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris remains to be seen. Sociologist Jake Rosenfeld, in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, explains why Democrats have lost some union votes and how the parties are responding.

Ugandan women’s ability to negotiate the conditions and timing of sex is key to preventing several reproductive health outcomes, say experts from the university’s Brown School.

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present “Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s–1970s” beginning Sept. 13. With nearly 300 architectural drawings, models, photographs, films, digital maps and artworks, “Design Agendas” is the first major exhibition to examine how interlocking civic, cultural and racial histories, as well as conflicting ideological aims, reshaped the city.

EmpowHer, a program designed to equip women with the knowledge, resources and support system to run a successful campaign and represent their constituents effectively, is being offered Aug. 23-24 at Washington University in St. Louis.

David J. Gray has been appointed interim senior vice chancellor and chief financial officer, Chancellor Andrew D. Martin announced.

Microscopy engineers at Washington University model how molecules move to enhance understanding of nanoscale biological systems.

Busayo Akinloye and Mayah Clayton, who are pursuing master’s degrees in public health in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, have been named This Is Public Health Ambassadors for 2024-25 by the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health.

Field research, science communication and . . . blood feeding. These were some of the skills that high school students Hope Jett and Kari Koerner learned this summer as part of WashU’s Tyson Environmental Research Apprenticeship.

Washington University School of Medicine faculty members Mark Rutherford and Yang E. Li have won grants from St. Baldrick’s Foundation to study pediatric cancers.