Drake appointed to lead Confluence Collaborative

Bettina Drake will be the inaugural faculty director of the St. Louis Confluence Collaborative for Community-Engaged Research, Teaching and Practice, effective July 1, Provost Beverly Wendland announced.

Risk of death from COVID-19 lessens, but issues can linger

New findings on long COVID — long-term effects on health experienced by many who have had COVID-19 — offer both good and bad news, according to a study at the School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care system.

Chakrabarty, collaborators to explore geoengineering

Rajan Chakrabarty and others at the McKelvey School of Engineering will explore stratospheric aerosol injection with a $1.5 million grant from the Simons Foundation International. The technique involves seeding the upper atmosphere with small particles to offset global warming.

Chemo enhanced by tapping into cell’s daily rhythms

A study from biologists and clinicians at WashU reports that glioblastoma cells have built-in circadian rhythms that create better times of day for treatment.

Notables

Dan Giammar, the Walter E. Browne Professor of Environmental Engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has been elected a fellow of the Class of 2024 Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors.

Notables

Karen Tokarz, the Charles Nagel Professor of Public Interest Law & Policy, received the William Pincus Award from the Association of American Law Schools during the organization’s conference on clinical legal education earlier this month.

Research Wire

Researchers at the School of Medicine have devised a method to gauge Alzheimer’s disease severity by analyzing the patterns of tau pathology in brain scans. The findings could lead to a way to determine how far the disease has progressed in individuals.

Announcements

Parking shares latest update

Parking & Transportation Services shares an update, including details about 2024-25 parking permits, a new campus office location and other reminders.

Liz Colletta, longtime accounting employee, 55

Elizabeth Colletta, a WashU employee for 31 years, died April 15. She was shot at her St. Louis home in an incident of domestic violence. The co-manager of Sponsored Projects Accounting helped manage nearly $1 billion in university awards, grants and contracts.