The Record

School-based program boosts children’s well-being amid crisis

A school-based program designed to help schoolchildren in Afghanistan develop resilience and life skills has been shown to be effective at improving mental health and learning outcomes amid war and trauma.

WashU Experts: Trump accounts must have auto enrollment

Widespread promotion has started for so-called Trump Accounts, including a Super Bowl ad. Parents can opt in to claim investment seed money of up to $1,000 for their children. But that opt-in part is problematic, say two Brown School experts on child development accounts.

Gulur named head of anesthesiology

Padma Gulur, MD, a physician-scientist and nationally recognized leader in pain management, has been named the head of the Department of Anesthesiology and the inaugural Alex S. Evers MD Distinguished Professor in Anesthesiology at WashU Medicine. Her appointment begins Aug. 1.

Humanities Digital Workshop celebrates successes, collaboration

The Humanities Digital Workshop in Arts & Sciences has helped to redefine humanities research in the past 20 years. Projects have spanned topics as varied as racial and gender-based violence, ancient Greek drama and Chinese migration.

Research Wire

Researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering are developing mathematically rigorous and computationally efficient techniques to transform extremely complex reinforcement learning problems into a manageable domain.