Falling for fall prevention
Through low-cost, personalized home modifications, occupational therapist Susy Stark helps elderly residents stay safe and independent.
Rethinking the waste in water
Young-Shin Jun and her team at the McKelvey School of Engineering see untapped resources in the chemical compounds in highly saline wastewater.
The continued need for DEI in the workplace
Sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfield sheds light on the ways racism persists in professional settings and offers a path forward for employers.
Women deserve better health care. Engineers can help.
Pressure. Contraction. Pushing. Rupture. For many, these words point to the experience of labor and childbirth. For Michelle Oyen, something else also comes to mind. “These are all very clearly engineering words that have to do with physical forces,” says Oyen, associate professor of biomedical engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering. “We’ve been treating […]
Bans that disrupt democracy
As rapidly spreading book bans harm America’s children and teachers alike, WashU’s Lisa Gilbert pinpoints problems and solutions as she empowers a new generation of educators.
A positive outcome to negative emotions
Arts & Sciences’ Emily Willroth finds those who accept unpleasant feelings, but not the underlying unpleasant situations, experience less anxiety and depression.
Happy medium
First-year Washington University students may have a lot to learn about media literacy in 2023, but so do the rest of us. It starts, says Eileen G’Sell, MFA ’06, with understanding that audience is everything.
Why pay transparency laws alone are not enough
Sociologist Jake Rosenfeld has a lot to say about the taboo subject of pay.
An 80-year odyssey of repatriation and repair
Jewish books stolen by Nazis during World War II are returned to Prague — by way of Washington University Libraries.
Reshoring drug production
The COVID-19 pandemic opened our eyes to the fragility of our pharmaceutical supply chain. Olin research provides a path forward to secure it.
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