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Li Yang, the Albert Gordon Hill Professor of Physics at WashU, has been named a 2025 fellow of the American Physical Society.

Benefits open enrollment is underway and will end Nov. 14. WashU employees should select, update or enroll in health insurance and other benefits for the 2026 calendar year.

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff in memory of former Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney died Nov. 3 at age 84.

Kenneth (Ken) Franklin Kelton, the Arthur Holly Compton Professor Emeritus of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis, has died following complications from lymphoma treatments. He was 71.

Beginning Wednesday, Nov. 5, WashU Information Technology is implementing a 1 TB storage quota on all WashU Box accounts and enforcing the current 1 TB quota on all OneDrive for Business accounts, which include Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams.

In recent research, Guy Genin, a biomedical engineer at Washington University in St. Louis, has identified phase transitions in living tissue that could explain why fibrosis suddenly accelerates.

Ganesh Chand, an assistant professor at WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, will study why some Alzheimer’s patients experience neuropsychiatric symptoms such as apathy and depression.

Farrokh Dehdashti, MD, the Drs. Barry A. and Marilyn J. Siegel Professor of Radiology at WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, has received the Radiological Society of North America’s 2025 Outstanding Researcher Award.

From analog to digital photos, Joe Angeles has captured WashU’s top moments for the past 37 years. He shares favorite images and reflects on a rewarding career in photojournalism.

Computer engineers from Washington University in St. Louis have released a round of “computer vision” tools that can help with species classification and autonomous driving technologies.