WashU leads new center for NIH research consortium

Multi-omics leverages the power of several data types to build a detailed picture of factors that contribute to human health and disease. Under a $19.2 federal million grant, Gary Patti, in Arts & Sciences, and Ting Wang, at the School of Medicine, will manage a new hub for multi-omics analyses at WashU.

MD program receives highest level of accreditation

The Liaison Committee on Medical Education has awarded full accreditation to the School of Medicine for another eight years. It’s a validation of the school’s historic $100 million investment in modernizing its MD training curriculum and providing critical support for student scholarships.

‘The distribution of ideas’

Publishing is both a centuries-old intellectual tradition and a sprawling contemporary practice. Publishing seeks to answer the question: How do ideas make their way into the world? Martin Riker discusses the new publishing concentration in the Department of English in Arts & Sciences.

WashU Expert on auto workers’ strike, future organizing

The persistently tight labor market, growing frustration over wage inequality and record high support for unions set the stage for the United Auto Workers’ strike, according to Arts & Sciences’ Jake Rosenfeld, an expert on labor unions.

Notables

Six Washington University faculty members and an alumnus are being honored by the Academy of Science – St. Louis for their outstanding contributions to the field. They will be recognized at an awards dinner tonight at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Notables

Emily Boyd, a teaching professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has been selected to receive the 2023 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Lakshmi Singh Early Career Leadership Award.

Research Wire

The Social Policy Institute at WashU has received a two-year $475,000 grant from the Lumina Foundation. The funding supports research to understand the impact of short-term credentials on individuals’ lives.