A strategic vision for the university’s next 10 years

Washington University has unveiled its strategic plan, setting a bold and ambitious path for the next decade. The plan, “Here and Next,” was developed through 18 months of listening, outreach and work sessions, and incorporates feedback from thousands of students, faculty, staff, alumni and community partners.

Alzheimer’s risk may be predicted with tool

When people participate in studies of aging, they often want to know their individual risks of developing dementia from Alzheimer’s disease. School of Medicine researchers have developed an algorithm that can help provide them with information about their risks.

US has capacity to make essential drugs, study finds

New research from the Center for Analytics and Business Insights at Olin Business School found that the United States has the capacity to make the nation’s most essential and critical drugs — yet it’s mostly sitting idle.

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Shantanu Chakrabartty, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, will lead a project funded by a three-year $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to make artificial intelligence systems more energy-efficient.

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Kim Thuy Seelinger (left), research associate professor at the Brown School, participated in a United Nations General Assembly event, “Ensuring Accountability for Sexual Violence and Other Violations of International Humanitarian Law,” last month in New York.