Brown School, STL mayor partner on public safety

The Brown School is partnering with the city of St. Louis in an innovative new program aimed at hiring social workers and public health professionals to intervene in nonviolent situations such as mental-health crises as an alternative to the criminal justice system.

Program can help reduce harmful in-home falls

New research from the School of Medicine suggests that in-home falls can be reduced by nearly 40% with a community-based program that helps older adults make modifications to their homes to prevent such mishaps.

Wrighton named interim president of George Washington University

Mark S. Wrighton, chancellor emeritus and the James and Mary Wertsch Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at Washington University, has been appointed interim president of George Washington University.

New method boosts MRI results without new data

Researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering and the School of Medicine developed software to improve MRI images without the need for new hardware or data.

Bacteria could learn to predict the future

Using computer simulations and a simple theoretical model, physicist Mikhail Tikhonov in Arts & Sciences showed how bacteria could adapt to a fluctuating environment by learning its statistical regularities and doing so faster than by evolutionary trial-and-error.

Notables

Melissa Rockwell-Hopkins, whose position has her overseeing more than $1 billion in construction projects at the School of Medicine, has been named the school’s associate vice chancellor for operations and facilities management.

Research Wire

St. Louis shows the strongest correlation between biodiversity and income of the 20 major U.S. cities included in a recent study. Solny Adalsteinsson, staff scientist at Tyson Research Center and a lecturer in environmental studies in Arts & Sciences, is a co-author of the research published in Global Change Biology.

Announcements

Steedman Fellowship competition announced

The Sam Fox School’s James Harrison Steedman Fellowship in Architecture, a biennial research competition, invites early-career architects from around the world to explore how architecture can help to address today’s most pressing global challenges.

Announcements

Whittemore House reopens for lunch

The Whittemore House at Washington University is reopening for indoor dining during lunch starting Monday, Sept. 13.