Month: December 2024

WashU Medicine secured $683 million in research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2024, placing the school at No. 2 in NIH funding nationwide for the second year in a row.

Volunteering, even a small amount, is linked to slower age acceleration for both retirees and working people, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

Nominations are being accepted for Washington University in St. Louis’ annual Faculty Achievement Awards, known as the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award and the Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award. The deadline to submit nominations is Feb. 7.

Environmental engineers at Washington University are working to document the microbial populations that live in household plumbing.

Mustafa Rfat, a PhD candidate in social work at the Brown School, has co-authored a correspondence published in The Lancet calling on greater economic integration of refugees and asylum seekers with disabilities. 

Burel R. Goodin, a professor of anesthesiology at WashU Medicine, has received more than $3 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support postdoctoral training.

The No. 1 Washington University in St. Louis women’s soccer team brought home the program’s second national title Dec. 8 at Peter Johann Memorial Field in Las Vegas with a 3-0 win over William Smith College. The Bears finished the season at 23-0-2, setting a new program record.

Tim McBride, the Bernard Becker Professor at the Brown School, has received the 2024 Rural Excellence in Advocacy Award from the Missouri Rural Health Association. The honor recognizes outstanding contributions to health care in rural Missouri.

Images from on and around the WashU campuses.

The path maize took to reach eastern North America has long been debated. A new study in the journal Cell, co-authored by Gayle Fritz in Arts & Sciences, provides clear evidence that maize traveled across the Great Plains from the Southwest.