The Record
Friday, Dec. 12, 2025
Top stories
St. Louis basic income pilot improved stability, study finds
Researchers from the Brown School evaluated St. Louis’ Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot Program, finding that regular cash payments significantly improved participants’ economic security, credit health and quality of life.
New tower expands WashU Medicine’s advanced heart care
Patients across the region and beyond have even more access to the expertise of WashU Medicine physicians at the new 16-story tower at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
Saint Louis Ballet dancers perform on stage, in CAPS classrooms
WashU student Rebecca Cornett is a dancer for Saint Louis Ballet, which is currently staging “The Nutcracker.” She also is one of several dancers pursuing their educations through the School of Continuing & Professional Studies.
A tale of three cities: Book explores gentrification in global context
A new book by urban researcher Carol Camp Yeakey, the Marshall S. Snow Professor of Arts & Sciences, examines the causes, impact and solutions to gentrification in cities around the world.
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WashU in the News
Babies as young as 7 months now have access to ‘transformative’ cochlear implants
CNN
Why Trump Accounts, as currently planned, risk leaving out many children
The New york times
WashU writing professor on how AI use is changing her classrooms
St. Louis post-dispatch
Missouri redistricting foes may have dealt big blow to Trump-backed congressional map
st. louis public radio
Campus and community news
Robert E. Hegel, in Arts & Sciences, has won the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize from the Modern Language Association of America for his translation of “The Heroic Adventures of Qin Shubao.”
The Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship awarded $33,000 in funding to six student-founded startups at its fall Venture Competition in November.
Happy holidays from the Record staff
Today’s issue marks the last Record of the calendar year. Publication will resume in January. For the latest news, visit The Source. The Record staff wishes everyone a safe and happy holiday season.
Perspectives
‘Taco’ is latest in book series about everyday objects’ secret lives
In “Taco,” a new book for the Object Lessons series, Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, in Arts & Sciences, offers a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food from the perspective of a Mexico City native. Read about this and other recent works on the Source Bookshelf.
Source Bookshelf