Author: Brittney Wheeler

K. Eliza Williamson, a lecturer in Arts & Sciences, was awarded a postdoctoral fieldwork grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to research families raising children diagnosed with Zika syndrome in Brazil. Williamson is also the incoming senior book reviews editor for American Ethnologist.

Polina V. Lishko, a noted molecular biologist and entrepreneur, has been named a BJC Investigator at Washington University School of Medicine.

Joan Strassmann and David Queller, both in Arts & Sciences, received a $141,578 supplemental award from the National Science Foundation for research on amoeba-bacteria cooperation.

The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis recently awarded six Graduate Student Fellowships for the 2022-23 academic year.

A new study from Washington University School of Medicine describes a potential new therapy for synovial sarcoma, a rare tumor of soft tissues.

Antibiotics inappropriately prescribed to children resulted in at least $74 million in excess health-care costs in the U.S. in 2017, according to a new study from Washington University School of Medicine and The Pew Charitable Trusts.

A new study, led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, has identified abnormalities in the development of the brain’s visual system in infants that may predispose them to developing autism.

Karen Leingang, who works in Information Technology, was elected and installed as district director of Toastmasters International’s District 8 at the district’s annual spring conference.

Vaccinated people with mild breakthrough COVID-19 infections can experience debilitating, lingering symptoms that affect the heart, brain, lungs and other parts of the body, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and the University of Wisconsin–Madison identified the genetic causes of three mitochondrial diseases by figuring out what dozens of poorly understood mitochondrial proteins do.