New strategy blocks chronic lung disease in mice

School of Medicine scientists have found that chemicals called cytokines can drive inflammation in more ways than previously understood, perhaps revealing new routes to potential treatments for inflammatory lung conditions.

Brown School working with St. Louis to contain virus

New research from faculty at the Brown School is providing guidance to local policymakers on how they might contain the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 until vaccination ramps up enough to provide widespread protection.

Electrical signaling in cells focus of $8.8 million grant

School of Medicine researchers have received an eight-year $8.8 million grant to study ion channels as potential targets for new drugs to treat disorders affecting the brain, heart and muscles.

Under climate stress, human innovation prevailed

Anthropologist T.R. Kidder in Arts & Sciences published research that combines insights from archaeologists and environmental scientists, offering more nuanced lessons about how people have responded — sometimes successfully — to long-term environmental changes.

Announcements

Reminder: emergency system test Thursday

Washington University will test its emergency communication system at 10 a.m. Thursday, March 4. The test will take place unless there is the potential for severe weather that day or some other emergency is occurring at that time.

Announcements

Professors Emeriti meeting set March 8

The university Society of Professors Emeriti will hold its regular monthly meeting via Zoom at 12:30 p.m. Monday, March. 8. Susan Frehlich Appleton, at the School of Law, will speak on “Families Under Construction: Parentage, Adoption and Assisted Reproduction.”

Notables

Panos Kouvelis at Olin Business School has been appointed editor-in-chief of Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management. Kouvelis is director of The Boeing Center for Supply Chain Innovation and the Emerson Distinguished Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management.