Field Notes: Researching air pollution in Fairbanks, Alaska

The latest edition of Field Notes travels to Fairbanks, Alaska, where Karolina Cysneiros de Carvalho, a PhD student at the McKelvey School of Engineering, studied how cold and dark conditions impact air pollution.

Synthetic data mimics real patient data

Research led by the School of Medicine demonstrated that analyzing synthetic data generated from real COVID-19 patients accurately replicates the results of the same analyses conducted on the real patient data. The school has been a national leader in this area.

Architect Voraakhom named designer-in-residence

Internationally celebrated landscape architect Kotchakorn Voraakhom will serve a yearlong appointment as designer-in-residence for the Pulitzer Arts Foundation and the Sam Fox School.

Notables

The Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, established in 2005 by Yale University and Howard University, recently inducted four WashU doctoral candidates. The society recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and promotes diversity and excellence in doctoral education and the professoriate.

Notables

William B. McKinnon and Paul Byrne, in Arts & Sciences, played important roles in developing a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. It identifies planetary science priorities and funding recommendations for the next decade.

Notables

The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs recently presented outstanding mentor awards to Alexxai Kravitz (left), James Stroud and John Russell at the annual Postdoc Symposium.