Nearly 1 million assistance calls made to 211 in August

In August, Americans made nearly a million calls for help to the 211 emergency resources helpline, according to 211 Counts, a national tracking system in 36 states developed by the Brown School’s Health Communication Research Laboratory.

Study uses environmental DNA for fish monitoring

Kara Andres, a postdoctoral researcher with WashU’s Living Earth Collaborative, used eDNA to follow invisible trails of genetic information from fish. The new approach could revolutionize wildlife tracking.

Arts & Sciences welcomes new faculty members

This fall semester, Arts & Sciences welcomed 54 tenure-track and teaching-track faculty to departments and programs across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities. Meet the newest members of the Arts & Sciences faculty community.

Research Wire

Alex Chen and Yajie Yuan, both in physics in Arts & Sciences, have received a $447,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to create a unified model of pulsars, rapidly rotating neutron stars that release mysterious pulses of electromagnetic radiation.

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Jason Yi (left) and Harrison Gabel, both at the School of Medicine, each have received two-year $300,000 pilot grants from the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative. The researchers will use the funds to investigate genetic diseases that result in autism.

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Researchers led by Fuzhong Zhang at the McKelvey School of Engineering developed a synthetic biology tool to comprehensively reveal gene regulatory networks in E. coli. The study was recently published in Nature Communications.