The Record

Bursky Public Health earns accreditation

Bursky Public Health met all 36 accreditation criteria while documenting a new institution still taking shape behind the scenes.

Aid for brain-bleed recovery named FDA Breakthrough Device

An earbud-like device from Aurenar, a WashU startup, is designed to improve stroke outcomes after a ruptured brain aneurysm. The technology is based on clinical trials led by WashU Medicine physician-scientists including Eric Leuthardt, MD.

How to live a more gratifying life

In “The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life,” WashU’s Ian Bogost explores the real but often unremarked delights to be found in ordinary encounters with the physical world.

Lenschow named inaugural John S. Daniels Professor

Deborah J. Lenschow, MD, PhD, a scientist who has made significant contributions to the fields of immunology, rheumatology and medicine, has been installed as the inaugural John S. Daniels Professor at WashU Medicine.

Notables

Matthew Allen (left), a senior lecturer at the WashU Sam Fox School, co-organized “Biographies of the Digital,” a conference for the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. WashU’s Andrew Witt was among the presenters.

Research Wire

WashU Medicine researchers identified key details of how DNA damage can flip a nerve cell’s self-destruct switch. The new study could lead to novel routes to preventing neurodegeneration in a variety of diseases.

Research Wire

Researchers at the WashU Brown School have received a $311,796 grant from the Brady Education Foundation to continue a landmark 18-year study examining how early asset-building policies influence children’s educational success.

Announcements

Reminder: WashU PD active threat drill Thursday

The WashU Police Department will conduct an active threat training exercise Thursday, July 9, on the Danforth Campus.

Guoyan Zhao, associate professor of genetics, neurology, 53

Guoyan Zhao, an associate professor of genetics and of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died May 15. She was 53.