For Carmon Colangelo, dean of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and the E. Desmond Lee Professor for Collaboration in the Arts, drawing is both an expressive art and a daily practice. At the office or in the studio, a sketchbook is always near. Colangelo discusses drawing, the importance of confidence and the advantage of starting in the middle of the book.

Enzymes linked to diabetes and obesity appear to play key roles in arthritis and leukemia. This potentially opens up new avenues for treating these diverse diseases, according to School of Medicine researchers Clay Semenkovich, MD (left), and Irfan Lodhi, PhD.

New work by scientists including university biologist Petra Levin, PhD, shows that bacteria don’t double in mass before dividing as previously thought. Instead, they add a constant volume (or mass) no matter their initial size. A small cell adds the same volume as a large cell. By following this rule, a cell population quickly converges on a common size.

At last month’s Board of Trustees meeting, several Washington University faculty members from the School of Medicine were promoted with tenure. Read more for details.

​Meredith Evans, PhD, has been named associate university librarian for University Libraries. She oversees the Department of Special Collections, which includes the Film and Media Archive, Manuscripts, the Modern Graphic History Library, Preservation, Rare Books, and University Archives.

Thirty staff and faculty members from across the university have been selected to serve on the Solutions for Achieving Value and Efficiency (SAVE) committee. During the next year, SAVE committee teams will analyze ideas submitted by the university community and ultimately will present recommendations to university leaders.