SLPS leaders to be honored with Rosa L. Parks Award

St. Louis Public Schools leaders Kelvin Adams and Deidra Thomas-Murray will be honored at the university’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration at 2 p.m. Monday, Jan. 16, in Graham Chapel. A week of events also will take place on the Medical Campus.

Sustainability key in new neuroscience building

The Neuroscience Research Building under construction on the Medical Campus will contain energy-efficient, low-energy research freezers in laboratories; electric charging stations in the parking garage; and numerous other sustainability-focused elements.

No oxygen needed for these minerals on Mars, study finds

Scientists in Arts & Sciences discovered that under Mars-like conditions, manganese oxides can be readily formed without atmospheric oxygen. The study from the laboratory of Jeffrey Catalano was published recently in Nature Geoscience.

Dry eye disease alters how cornea heals after injury

Studying mice, researchers at the School of Medicine have found that proteins made by stem cells to help regenerate the cornea may become new targets for treating and preventing injuries to the cornea related to dry eye disease.

Beyond the average cell

Models based on an average cell may not accurately describe how individual cells work. In PLOS Genetics, a team including biologists and physicists from Arts & Sciences uses single-cell data to update the framework for understanding the relationship between cell growth, DNA replication and division in a bacterial system.

Notables

Douglas Flowe, an associate professor of history in Arts & Sciences, is featured in “The Lie Detector,” a PBS documentary about the invention, promise and unintended consequences of the polygraph machine. It premiered Jan. 3.

Notables

Robert Poirier, MD, an associate professor and clinical chief of emergency medicine at the School of Medicine, has received the 2022 Goodman Legacy Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

Notables

Michael Sherraden, the George Warren Brown Distinguished University Professor at the Brown School, has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 Distinguished Career Achievement Award presented by the Society for Social Work and Research.

Announcements

COVID vaccine booster clinics planned

Washington University employees can get a COVID-19 booster shot during walk-in clinics on the Medical Campus starting Friday, Jan. 13.