Why do we sleep?

Sleep helps restore the brain’s operating system to a critical state, according to new findings from biology and physics researchers in Arts & Sciences. The study is published in Nature Neuroscience.

WashU to celebrate MLK Day, honor cemetery group

Members of the Greenwood Cemetery Preservation Association will receive the annual Rosa L. Parks Award at WashU’s Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Monday, Jan. 15. Other events will take place on the Medical Campus throughout the week.

Awardees announced for Needleman Program

Three WashU researchers developing promising therapeutics for cancer and heart disease are the inaugural awardees of the Needleman Program for Innovation and Commercialization. The next round of project proposals is now open.

Old research, new readers

Some Source stories from years past continue to attract new readers. Here, we check in with WashU researchers in linguistics, psychology, engineering and other disciplines to learn more about their work and how the research has progressed.

Notables

Nia Hodges, a second-year master’s student studying data analytics and statistics at the McKelvey School of Engineering, recently won a Diversity Fellowship Award from the Taylor Geospatial Institute, a collaboration that aims to advance geospatial technology.

Research Wire

Educational reform should embrace learners’ diversity, provide equitable access to foster attendance and promote student interest in learning through child-centered teaching, finds a new study co-authored by the Brown School’s Jean-Francois Trani.