How deep sleep keeps our brains intact

Landmark WashU research was the first to demonstrate that fragmented sleep might be as much a cause as a consequence of dementia. Researchers today study connections between sleep and neurodegenerative disease from a variety of angles.

‘Politics of Reproduction’ course offered this fall

The debate over abortion has only intensified after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The university is offering an interdisciplinary course this fall to provide students with a nuanced understanding of what led to the ruling and implications going forward.

One researcher’s artifact is another’s result

Anthropologist Talia Dan-Cohen and philosopher Carl Craver, both in Arts & Sciences, dig into the meaning of data artifacts in scientific research — and who gets to decide which experimental results are valid.

Notables

Xiuli Liu, MD, PhD, a professor of pathology and immunology at the School of Medicine, has been elected president of the Chinese American Pathologists Association. Her term lasts one year.

Notables

“Philia,” a short film by Jack Mayer, a rising senior in Arts & Sciences, has been named Best LGBTQ Film at the 2022 Experimental Forum in Los Angeles.

Research Wire

Fuzhong Zhang, a professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, will use a National Science Foundation grant to more closely study the muscle fiber titin, along with other exotic materials.

Wayne T. Hanebrink, former associate dean, 83

Wayne T. Hanebrink, a former associate dean in Arts & Sciences, died July 22, 2022, after a fall. He was 83. Hanebrink retired in 2002 but continued to be involved at WashU.