Reimagining textile production

Cotton fabric is natural, renewable and biodegradable. With her patented RECLEM process, WashU fashion associate professor Mary Ruppert-Stroescu hopes to revolutionize how recycled fabrics are processed and used to create new garments.

COVID-19 exposure-alert system expands in state

Washington University is expanding access to MO/Notify, a smartphone system that privately sends pop-up alerts to users in Missouri when they have spent time near someone who later tests positive for COVID-19.

Expanded tax credits did not lower employment, study finds

An analysis of Census Pulse Survey data from the university’s Social Policy Institute shows that the expanded Child Tax Credit did not cause an exit from the labor force.

Research Wire

Cancer scientists Christopher A. Maher (left) and Ryan C. Fields, MD, both at the School of Medicine, received a $2.8 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for colorectal cancer research.

Research Wire

Research from the lab of Ulugbek Kamilov at the McKelvey School of Engineering begins to unravel the inner workings of deep learning algorithms used in imaging.

Notables

Leopoldo J. Cabassa, professor at the Brown School and co-director of the Center for Mental Health Services Research, has been appointed to the Advisory Council of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Scientific Review.

Robert E. Kleiger, professor of medicine, 87

Robert E. Kleiger, MD, a noted longtime electrophysiologist in the Cardiovascular Division at the School of Medicine, died of prostate cancer Jan. 21 at his home in St. Louis. He was 87.