Assessing state of US workers’ power, opportunity

A new landscape report conducted by Jake Rosenfeld, a professor of sociology in Arts & Sciences, examines the decline in worker power over the last several decades and outlines policy recommendations to rebalance the economic playing field for workers.

Olin dean search committee appointed

Chancellor Andrew D. Martin and Provost Beverly Wendland have appointed an 11-member committee, led by Kurt Dirks, to identify candidates for the position of dean of Olin Business School.

By design: from waste to next-gen carbon fiber

Joshua Yuan at the McKelvey School of Engineering and collaborators have cracked a chemical code that will take carbon fiber to the next level.

Research Wire

The McKelvey School of Engineering’s Abhinav Jha and collaborators have developed a way to measure the distribution of dangerous radiation associated with cancer treatments. The research was published online in IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Sciences.

Notables

Mungai Mutonya in Arts & Sciences has received a second fellowship from the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program to continue the collaborative educational project initiated at the University of Nairobi during his 2021 fellowship.

Notables

The School of Law’s Clinical Education Program held its first pro bono estate planning clinic in July to serve low-income members of the St. Louis community, helping draft wills, powers of attorney and other documents.

Announcements

Academic integrity process to be reimagined

The university is moving toward a centralized process for handling academic integrity violations at the undergraduate level, in response to feedback from a faculty commission. Students, faculty and staff members are needed to serve on the working groups.