Pediatric COVID-19 vaccine trial underway

A pediatric COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial is underway in St. Louis. Led by the School of Medicine, about 140 area children will receive the two-shot Moderna vaccine or a placebo at St. Louis Children’s Hospital as part of a clinical trial.

New book challenges assumptions about state courts

In the new book “Judging Inequality,” co-author James L. Gibson in Arts & Sciences finds that state supreme courts often reflect the will of a state’s political majority. He studied 26 years of political maneuvering to influence the states’ highest courts.

New catalyst helps combine fuel cell, battery

A team in the lab of Vijay Ramani at the McKelvey School of Engineering has developed a catalyst that can be used to both generate fuel and provide power.

Research Wire

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded James Fitzpatrick a $600,000 grant to purchase a cutting-edge optical microscope for the Washington University Center for Cellular Imaging, expanding super-resolution imaging to a broader range of wavelengths.

Notables

McKelvey School of Engineering graduate student Garrett Roell has been accepted into the Office of Science Graduate Student Research program, a prestigious research opportunity funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.