The Record

Lessons from the wild

Plant scientists in Arts & Sciences are organizing research on the diseases of wild plants, such as those growing in nearby fields. The work could help agricultural systems endure climate change.

Dementia rising across Latino populations, study finds

Research led by WashU Medicine neurologist Jorge Llibre-Guerra, MD, provides the first direct evidence that some parts of Latin America are moving in the opposite direction of dropping dementia rates in wealthy nations.

Malone installed as Nancy and Kenneth Kranzberg Curator

Since joining the WashU Kemper Art Museum in 2006, Meredith Malone has organized a range of exhibitions, programs and acquisitions that aim to expand visual art’s intellectual, geographic and cultural reach.

How morals influence food, health decisions

Sydney Scott, a marketing researcher at Olin Business School, studies why consumers act the way they do, whether they’re in the grocery aisle or at the doctor’s office.

Notables

Anthony J. Azama, the John M. Schael Director of Athletics at WashU, has been elected to serve as third vice president of the National Association of Division III Athletics Administrators.

Notables

Yin Cao, ScD, an associate professor in the Division of Public Health Sciences at WashU Medicine, has been named a 2026 Fellow of the 101st class of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Research Wire

WashU biomedical engineer Yifan Dai will study chemical processes in cells thanks to a $2 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).