Pediatric primary care critical to teens’ mental health

Katie Plax, MD, at the School of Medicine, has helped lead studies on depression and pediatric primary care. Her most recent work focuses on helping primary health-care providers develop processes to diagnose and manage mental health disorders in kids and teens.

2023-24 tuition, room, meal plans, fees announced

Undergraduate tuition will be $61,750 for the 2023-24 academic year — a $2,330 (3.9%) increase over the 2022-23 academic tuition of $59,420, announced Amy B. Kweskin, executive vice chancellor for finance and chief financial officer.

Technique reveals biomarkers for progressive disorders

Research from the lab of WashU’s Hong Chen, and collaborators, found that focused-ultrasound-mediated liquid biopsy could be a successful method to help diagnose neurodegenerative disorders.

Notables

Chenyang Lu, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has received the Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award from the IEEE Technical Community on Real-Time Systems. Lu is internationally renowned for work in cyber-physical and real-time systems.

Notables

Zakiya Luna, a Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar of sociology in Arts & Sciences, has won the 2023 Distinguished Feminist Lecturer Award from Sociologists for Women in Society.