The Record
Friday, March 21, 2025
Top stories
How cells sense, remember their environments
A $2.2 million federal grant will fund McKelvey School of Engineering research to explore how epithelial cells sense their environments and acquire mechanical memories. The work has implications for new therapies for wound healing, cancer and more.
St. Louis high school students compete at WashU Brain Bee
About 55 high school students from the St. Louis region and beyond tested their knowledge of the human brain and learned about neuroscience careers at the 15th annual St. Louis Area Brain Bee this month at WashU.
WashU Medicine to open new location for child care center
WashU Medicine is set to open a new, more spacious child development center in a new location to better support the child care needs of Medical Campus employees. WashU Medicine provided nearly $17 million in funding for the project.
Events
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MAR 21 |
‘Artificial intelligence and the practice of law’1–4 p.m. Friday, March 21 |
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MAR 22 |
Kemper Art Museum tour: art and the environment2 p.m. Saturday, March 22 |
Social Post of the WeekTo fresh beginnings. Hello spring.
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WashU in the News
Researchers find a hint at how to delay Alzheimer’s symptoms; now they have to prove it
The Associated Press
Mother with rare ALS touts ‘miracle drug’ that has stopped her disease
Fox News
Tariff uncertainty sparks manufacturing anxiety, especially among small firms
Manufacturing dive
Whoa, scientists created a radical new state of matter that defies time
popular mechanics
Campus and community news
The Jansky/Bander Family Fund, a generous commitment of $1.1 million over five years, has been established to advance critical initiatives within the Section of Movement Disorders in the Department of Neurology at WashU Medicine.
Esther Viola Kurtz, in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, has published an article titled “Call, Response, and Compromisso: Ethical Practice in Capoeira of Backland Bahia, Brazil.”
Nominate PhD students to serve on Doctoral Council
WashU’s Doctoral Council seeks two new PhD students to serve for a two-year term beginning in August. The nomination deadline is April 11.
Perspectives
‘What Amazon MGM’s creative control over the James Bond film franchise means for the future of 007’
Film scholar Colin Burnett, in Arts & Sciences, writes about James Bond, franchise properties and, in an age of complex licensing, the meaning of creative control.
the conversation
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Who Knew WashU? Question: The Bears men’s basketball team played March 20 in the Final Four round of the NCAA Division III tournament. How many NCAA championships has that team won? Answer: B) Two, in 2008 and 2009, which also marked the team’s most recent Final Four appearance. Congrats to this week’s winner, Patricia Meyer, a staff member in pediatrics at WashU Medicine, who will receive an “I Knew WashU” luggage tag! |