Women comprise 89% of university’s cabinet

Women continue to be underrepresented in top jobs in America’s institutions of higher education, holding less than 40% of executive leadership roles. One notable exception is WashU, where women comprise 89% of Chancellor Andrew D. Martin’s cabinet.

Alcohol use disorder linked to 232M missed workdays

School of Medicine researchers have found that people in the U.S. with severe alcohol use disorder miss more than double the number of workdays missed by individuals without alcohol use disorder.

Tiny, cheap solution for quantum-secure encryption

Shantanu Chakrabartty at the McKelvey School of Engineering proposes a new kind of encryption to protect data in the age of quantum computers.

WashU Expert: Russian action may constitute war crimes

Although not every violation of the law of war amounts to a “war crime,” the facts emerging from the conflict in Ukraine thus far are deeply troubling, says international criminal law expert Leila Sadat.

Research Wire

Eric Galburt, associate professor at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.3 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to research DNA repair.

Research Wire

Biologist Susanne S. Renner in Arts & Sciences assembled and edited 15 papers that synthesize and challenge the current understanding of how plants separate into male and female functions for Philosophical Transactions B, published by The Royal Society.

Announcements

Flags lowered in memory of Albright

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff in memory of former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright until sunset Sunday, March 27. Albright died March 23 at age 84.

Announcements

Primary care practice dedicated to employees

The university is reminding employees about WUCare, a dedicated primary care physician practice offered exclusively to WashU employees and their dependents age 18 and older enrolled in the university-sponsored health plan.