Month: February 2024

Students in the School of Law’s Clinical Education Program, now 50 years old, gain important skills while helping members of the community.

Researchers at Olin Business School used a machine-learning model to test a better system for sharing medical supplies such as ventilators across the country in an emergency. Their work was published in the journal Annals of Operations Research.

Images from on and around the Washington University in St. Louis campuses.

Researchers at the School of Medicine have found important clues to how people make choices involving obtaining information about the future. The scientists identified a set of mental rules that governs decision-making about rewards.

Emily Willroth, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University, has received the SAGE Early Career Trajectory Award from the Society for Social and Personality Psychology.

Rajendra Apte, MD, PhD, the Paul A. Cibis Distinguished Professor in the John F. Hardesty, MD, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences at the School of Medicine, has received a $300,000 Research to Prevent Blindness/American Macular Degeneration Foundation Catalyst Award.

For years, Gateway STEM High School students have read Pulitzer Prize-winning climate journalist Elizabeth Kolbert. On Feb. 12, they got to meet her at a special science storytelling program at Washington University in St. Louis. The event was sponsored by WashU’s Climate Across Curriculum program, which connects Gateway STEM in St. Louis Public Schools to faculty experts, campus tours and learning resources.

Geet Vanaik has been appointed executive director of the Office for International Students and Scholars, effective March 12, announced Beverly Wendland, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs. 

Environmental engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis have been studying dicamba drift to understand why the herbicide vaporizes and migrates to other crops.

Undergraduate student artists of any kind are welcome to apply for the Atkin Residency in the Art of Democracy. The application deadline is March 7.