Month: September 2025

“Inside Out,” an exhibition by Sam Fox School faculty Chandler Ahrens, Constance Vale and Kelley Van Dyck Murphy, is featured in the 2025 Exhibit Columbus “Yes And” exhibition in Indiana.

Premal H. Thaker, MD, an accomplished clinician who has been recognized for her landmark research on ovarian cancer progression, has been named director of the Division of Gynecologic Oncology in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at WashU Medicine.

The School of Public Health will convene experts Sept. 23 to tackle accelerating biodiversity loss and explore strategies to safeguard food security and human health.

A new study led by researchers at WashU Medicine reveals possible new avenues to help brown fat produce more heat, which could aid in weight loss and improve metabolic health.

A WashU public health researcher finds that there is bipartisan backing for crisis hotlines, walk-in centers and peer support — diverging from federal policies expanding forced treatment.

As director of the Digital Art History Lab, Betha Whitlow provides work experiences to students that are both fruitful and fairly compensated. She wants the same for her WashU colleagues. On the Danforth Staff Council, she successfully advocated for parental leave. 

A U.S. Department of Defense award will help WashU Medicine researchers develop a test to quickly group sepsis patients into risk categories based on their levels of two inflammatory biomarkers.

In July, NASA formally designated WashU’s Geosciences Node, a division of NASA’s Planetary Data System that has been on campus since 1989, to serve as the lead science data node for the Artemis II, III and IV missions.

A study led by William H. McCoy IV, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Dermatology at WashU Medicine, has identified an important way that Cutibacterium acnes bacteria thrives on human skin.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are finding ways to efficiently reclaim useful intermediary chemicals from sewage instead of a more energy-intensive process for biogas reclamation.