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Healthy adults who learn information more quickly than their peers also have better long-term retention for the material despite spending less time studying it, finds a new study from psychologists at Washington University in St. Louis finds.

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but what if you don’t want a whole essay? A computer engineer at Washington University in St. Louis is building visualizations to clarify and condense health risk data for patients.

Steven Frankel, assistant professor of mathematics in Arts & Sciences, talks about why there are no obvious questions in math — and the link between the geometry of a space and how that space changes over time.

Francisco Buera has been named the Sam B. Cook Professor of Economics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University. He was installed May 7 at a ceremony in Ridgley Hall’s Holmes Lounge.

Washington University in St. Louis is now partnering with Lime to bring bike sharing to campus.

“Nike is turning towards a younger, more diverse America because they’ve calculated that Trumpian claims about compulsory patriotism and black athletic obedience will not win out,” says Noah Cohan, who studies sports narratives and fandom at Washington University in St. Louis.

In “The Cabinet of Ordinary Affairs,” the Sam Fox School’s Cheryl Wassenaar and Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer explore the ways our distinct inner voices combine to create a “bureaucracy of the mind.”

Washington University parking leaders welcomed students, faculty and staff back to campus with updates and reminders about getting to, from and around the university. Watch the video for details.

Washington University releases the findings and recommendations of a working group that identified areas for improvement in response to sexual assault and misconduct on campus. The effort was launched in response to feedback and concerns students have shared with the administration.

A new study from the School of Medicine shows that — in human tumor cells grown in the lab — a natural plant compound shuts down uveal melanoma cell growth.