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News for the Washington University Campuses & Community
Straight from The Source
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University bolsters promise to St. Louis area
Henry S. Webber, executive vice chancellor, will transition to the newly created role of executive vice chancellor for civic affairs and strategic planning to support and strengthen regional engagement.
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Student COVID-19 testing plan updated
As many students return to the Danforth Campus, university leaders provide an update on the COVID-19 testing plan. Federal regulators recently approved a saliva test created by WashU researchers, allowing the university to increase its testing program.
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Welcoming the Class of 2024
Across campus, students, faculty and staff are finding creative ways to welcome the Class of 2024 despite ever-evolving public health directives and university policies, said Katharine Pei, director of First Year Programs. About 1,600 students will arrive this weekend.
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Emerging diseases focus of international collaboration
The School of Medicine is one of 10 sites and a coordinating center forming the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases, funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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Once infected, twice infected
Biologist Rachel Penczykowski in Arts & Sciences conducted a series of elegant experiments that capture how pathogen strains naturally accumulate on plants over a growing season. Her findings are reported in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
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Campus Announcements
The Department of Emergency Medicine at the School of Medicine has opened a telemedicine health clinic for students, employees and dependents ages 18 and older who suffer from minor ailments and from illnesses, including the flu and COVID-19.
The clinic, called WashU Express Care, began seeing patients virtually Sept. 1.
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Michal Grinstein-Weiss, director of the university’s Social Policy Institute, co-wrote an op-ed published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the importance of keeping people safe during the COVID-19 pandemic — and how certain jobs, often those held by Black and Hispanic workers, carry higher risks.
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 Richard L. Wahl, MD, the Elizabeth E. Mallinckrodt Professor and head of the Department of Radiology at the School of Medicine, has been elected president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. He will serve a one-year term as president-elect and then step into the presidency in July 2021.
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Research Wire
 Gary Patti, the Michael and Tana Powell Professor of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received grants totaling $1.5 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research on metabolic pathways and their connection with diseases like COVID-19.
Read more from the Research Wire →
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