How to welcome all students into STEM

Sarah Elgin and Christopher Shaffer, in Arts & Sciences, advocate for new classroom approaches to fix the national exodus of students from science, technology, engineering and math fields. They share their approach in a policy paper published in Science.

WashU Orthopedics teams up with STL CITY Soccer Club

Major League Soccer expansion club St. Louis CITY Soccer Club has chosen physicians with WashU Orthopedics as the club’s official team doctors and BJC HealthCare as the team’s medical services provider.

Ssewamala to study strategies for HIV treatments in Uganda

Fred Ssewamala, at the Brown School, received a five-year $3.2 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to lead a study on intervention strategies for HIV treatments among Ugandan youth. The study could advance intervention science for HIV care globally.

How do cells take out the trash?

New research led by Kiersten Ruff, a senior research scientist in Rohit Pappu’s lab at the McKelvey School of Engineering, uncovered rules that govern how unfolded proteins are identified — and found that exceptions to the rules may play a role in dysfunctional cells.

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Faculty from the McKelvey School of Engineering are part of a collaborative effort awarded $25 million by the U.S. Department of Energy to better understand climate change in urban environments.

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Benjamin Garcia, the Raymond H. Wittcoff Distinguished Professor at the School of Medicine, with University of Pennsylvania colleagues, received a five-year $2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a quantitative mass spectrometry project.

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Ari Stern, associate professor of mathematics and statistics in Arts & Sciences, won a $237,648 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “Structure-Preserving Hybrid Finite Element Methods.”