Improving health of mothers, infants aim of imaging tech

School of Medicine researchers have received grants totaling more than $6.8 million to advance research on a novel imaging system to monitor uterine contractions. The electromyometrial imaging system, called EMMI, was invented and developed at the university.

COVID-19 update: isolation masks now recommended

Steven Lawrence, MD, an infectious disease specialist at the School of Medicine, explains how proper masking, along with vaccines and daily self-screening, help protect the WashU community. The university now recommends people wear isolation masks.

How to improve outcomes for non-English speakers

Cindy Brantmeier in Arts & Sciences led a survey of health-care providers that reveals challenges communicating and sharing information about COVID-19 with patients whose primary language is not English.

What drives plate motions on ‘imbalanced’ Earth?

A new analysis led by geophysicist Anne M. Hofmeister in Arts & Sciences provides an alternative to the mantle convection hypothesis. The study is published in a special paper of the Geological Society of America.

Notables

Zhen (Jason) He at the McKelvey School of Engineering has been named editor in chief of the Journal of Hazardous Materials, which focuses on the health and environmental risks that some materials pose.

Notables

Laneshia K. Tague, MD, assistant professor at the School of Medicine, has received the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Award. Tague works to understand the role of genetics in how patients respond to immunosuppression drugs following lung transplantation.

Research Wire

Alian Wang, research professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in Arts & Sciences, received a three-year $570,828 award from NASA for planetary research.