Lowe appointed vice chancellor for research

Mark E. Lowe, MD, PhD, an academic leader and accomplished pediatric physician-scientist at the School of Medicine, has been appointed the university’s vice chancellor for research, effective Saturday, July 1.

Maternal vitamin D deficiency raises offspring’s diabetes risk

Researchers at the School of Medicine have identified a process in immune cells that links vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy to an increased risk of Type 2 diabetes in offspring.

AI could transform baseball

A deep neural network model proposed by Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has been shown to boost the effectiveness of average and below-average major league pitchers.

Schaal elected to American Philosophical Society

Barbara A. Schaal, the Mary-Dell Chilton Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences, was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. Schaal was among the first to use molecular biology-based approaches to understand evolutionary processes in plants.

WashU Expert on why inflation news isn’t that bad

When thinking about the economy and inflation, Olin Business School economics expert John Horn said it’s important to focus on larger-picture trends rather than specific details like egg prices. Overall, he said, inflation is gliding back to the path we’d like to see of around 2%.

Notables

Sheretta Butler-Barnes, at the Brown School, has been named the Sojourner Truth in Racial & Social Justice Visiting Professor at Rutgers University School of Social Work for the 2023-24 academic year.

Notables

The latest winners of the Big Ideas Competition, which supports novel projects in informatics and health-care delivery, have been announced.

Research Wire

With funding from the National Science Foundation, William Yeoh, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, will use artificial intelligence to develop a fair, equitable and efficient scheduling system for courts.