The Record

New initiative to tackle problems through private-public partnerships

The Brown School is deepening its engagement with the St. Louis community through a new initiative that connects WashU expertise with residents, community organizations and industry partners. The WashU Public Exchange joins a model created at the University of Southern California.

Requests for food assistance skyrocket at national helpline

211 call centers have seen a steep jump in requests for food aid as uncertainty mounts about SNAP benefits, according to data collected by 211 Counts, a project of the WashU School of Public Health.

Discovery of viral entry routes into cells points to prevention strategies

Researchers at WashU Medicine have identified central routes that two deadly viruses take to invade human cells and designed “decoy” molecules to block the infections.

Research Wire

In recent research, WashU biomedical engineer Guy Genin identified phase transitions in living tissue that could explain why fibrosis suddenly accelerates. The work was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Announcements

Box, OneDrive data storage limited

Beginning today, WashU Information Technology is implementing a 1 TB storage quota on all WashU Box accounts and enforcing the current 1 TB quota on all OneDrive for Business accounts, which include Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams.