Global Research Symposium scheduled Oct. 5-7
The McDonnell International Scholars Academy convenes its Global Research Symposium in person Oct 5-7.
Hotchner Festival presents four new plays
Three WashU playwrights — Maddy Klass, Bela Marcus and Charlie Meyers — will present world-premiere staged readings as part of the 2023 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival.
WashU leads new multi-omics production center for NIH research consortium
Multi-omics leverages the power of several different “omics” data types at once to build a detailed picture of factors that contribute to human health and disease. Under a $19.2 million grant award, Gary Patti, in Arts & Sciences, and Ting Wang, at the School of Medicine, will manage a new hub for multi-omics analyses at Washington University.
Auto workers’ strike could impact future labor organizing
The persistently tight labor market, growing frustration over wage inequality and record high support for unions set the stage for the United Auto Workers strike, according to Jake Rosenfeld, a professor of sociology in Arts & Sciences.
‘The distribution of ideas’
Publishing is both a centuries-old intellectual tradition and a sprawling contemporary practice. Yet at its core, publishing seeks to answer one overarching question: How do ideas make their way into the world? So argues Martin Riker, director of the new publishing concentration in the Department of English in Arts & Sciences.
Braver awarded MURI grant for attention control strategies research
A multi-institutional research project led by Todd Braver, a professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences, received an $8.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to study attention control and strategies to improve it.
Partnership key to chronic disease prevention, study finds
Responding to complex health inequities in communities requires collaborative partnerships, according to a study from the Brown School.
$3M grant funds training to harness power of AI for social, environmental challenges
A National Science Foundation research traineeship led by William Yeoh at the McKelvey School of Engineering will prepare investigators at the convergence of computational, environmental and social sciences.
Grant supports physician-scientists studying infectious diseases, immunology
Wayne Yokoyama, MD, director of the Division of Physician-Scientists at the School of Medicine, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to support early-career physicians interested in pursuing research in infectious diseases and immunology.
Iconic American basswood to be replanted in Brookings Quad
For approximately 110 years, the American basswood in Brookings Quadrangle was a home to bees, a beautiful backdrop for Commencements and a shady refuge for students, staff and faculty. Now, thanks to a team of tree experts, the tree will live on.
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