Pharmaceutical companies have largely abandoned the business of discovering and developing antibiotics, and our stock of these “miracle drugs” is beginning to shrink. But Washington University’s Michael Kinch, PhD, and colleagues are working to create new models for drug discovery that could replace the failed private enterprise model.

Over the last century, nearly 1,900 square miles of Louisiana wetlands — an area approximately the size of Delaware — have disappeared. Now the Sam Fox School’s John Hoal is leading STUDIO MISI-ZIBBI, one of three finalist teams in the international competition “Changing Course: Navigating the Future of the Lower Mississippi River Delta.”

Nanopore Diagnostics and ViFlex are the inaugural winners of the Suren G. Dutia and Jas K. Grewal Global Impact Award from the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. Tom Cohen (right) and Nanopore are developing a test to better tailor antibiotics, and ViFlex is working on low-cost eyeglasses for those in developing countries.

Head women’s basketball coach Nancy Fahey will be inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in a special ceremony Nov. 6 at the St. Charles Convention Center. Already a member of the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame and the university’s Sports Hall of Fame, Fahey enters her 29th season as head coach.