Author: Kelly Wiese Niemeyer

The Trump administration on Tuesday quickly rescinded the July 6 policy directive that would have prohibited international students from being in the United States if all of their classes were online. Washington University supported a lawsuit filed by Harvard and MIT challenging the policy.

Question: University Libraries boasts a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence, known as a Southwick broadside. How many copies of it exist today?

A team of wildlife biologists and infectious disease experts, including some at the School of Medicine, propose in an article published in Science a decentralized, global wildlife biosurveillance system to identify animal viruses that have the potential to cause human disease – before the next pandemic emerges.

Parasitologist L. David Sibley at the School of Medicine is leading an international effort to find drugs to cure toxoplasmosis, a parasitic disease characterized by vision problems and brain complications.

Thomas A. Ferguson, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at  Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received a Research to Prevent Blindness Stein Innovation Award.

Adrienne Davis and Joan Luby will receive Washington University in St. Louis’ 2020 faculty achievement awards, Chancellor Andrew D. Martin announced. Also, Douglas F. Covey will be honored for innovation.

The Office of Sustainability invites members of the university community to join the WashU team in an online plastic-free challenge this month.

At the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees meeting May 1, several faculty members were appointed or promoted with tenure, with most taking effect July 1.

Question: In what year was what’s now called the Department of African and African-American Studies in Arts & Sciences established?

Washington University Athletics has reached its first apparel deal in department history, signing an agreement with Nike and BSN Sports.