The Teaching Center is ramping up its efforts and programs on inclusive teaching and learning. One goal is to better engage, include and challenge all students. The effort includes workshops, a faculty fellowship and a faculty institute.

Following a four-month rigorous training and selection process among 46 exceptional applications to the Bear Cub Challenge, the top applicants have received grants. The top awards went to teams working on a blood substitute and on a fast, accurate hearing test.

Odis Johnson, PhD, joined the Department of Education in Arts & Sciences this semester. Here, he talks about the future of education research and policy, and how education, race and urban policy intersect (from the Ampersand).

An inaugural exhibit of images by scientists, titled “Research as Art,” was held earlier this month. Included were eerie landscapes created by vortices in superfluids, smeared false-color data from satellite-borne instruments, and many more colorful images. Organizers hope the exhibit becomes an annual WashU tradition.