Newsroom Stories

WashU videographers captured the discoveries and perspectives of campus newsmakers. Highlights include a trip to Ecuador where one WashU professor is working to halt hidden hunger, one instructor’s reflections on his Hollywood career and a deep dive into the Mississippi River system.

Researchers at Washington University found correlations between types of brain structure and people who try drugs before age 15.

People should be strategic about how and when they set new goals, according to positive psychology researcher Tim Bono at Washington University.

WashU Medicine researchers have been awarded nearly $5 million to better understand what causes pain symptoms to persist in some patients recovering from surgery.

Gregory Lanza, MD, PhD, the James R. Hornsby Family Professor in Biomedical Sciences at WashU Medicine, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in recognition of his application of nanotechnology to a broad variety of medical innovations.

People with severe, treatment-resistant depression who received vagus nerve stimulation therapy showed improvement in depressive symptoms, quality of life and ability to complete everyday tasks, according to a national clinical trial led by researchers at WashU Medicine.

Researchers at WashU Medicine have received $7.5 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate a form of dementia caused by cerebral small vessel disease, the second-leading cause of dementia after Alzheimer’s.

WashU Medicine has received renewal of a prestigious National Cancer Institute grant. Led by Daniel Link, MD, it provides funding for translational research into new therapies for patients with blood cancers.

Biologists in Arts & Sciences found that 57% of their samples of weedy rice collected in Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana were resistant to herbicides.

In recognition of a $50 million gift from Andrew and Barbara Taylor, the neurosurgery department at WashU Medicine has been named the Taylor Family Department of Neurosurgery.