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Ana Maria Arbeláez, MD, and Stephanie A. Fritz, MD, have been named co-vice chairs of clinical investigation in the Department of Pediatrics at WashU Medicine.

A new study from WashU Medicine researchers describes the structure of an important protein that unspools the DNA molecule so the DNA can be repaired. Interfering with the protein could prove useful in developing new therapeutics for tuberculosis or other diseases caused by organisms that rely on these proteins to repair their DNA.

Rising WashU junior Madison Yue has won a prestigious Peter Roth Internship from the Paley Center for Media in New York.

The Brown School’s Vanessa Fabbre and Cal Halvorsen have been named 2025 Gerontological Society of America Fellows, while Nancy Morrow-Howell received the Barbara J. Berkman Award for Outstanding Interdisciplinary Research, Practice or Policy in Aging and Health Care.

WashU Medicine researchers led by Siyuan Ding identified an immune-system protein in human cells that has the unusual capacity to respond to both DNA and RNA from pathogens, which may have implications for developing vaccines.

Sandra Geary, a teacher of applied music and collaborative pianist in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, died June 23 following a short illness. She was 59.

The East End garage recently landed a new national certification for its sustainable features.

Mitra Naseh, assistant professor at the Brown School, has been selected as one of four scholars nationwide for the 2025-2026 Visiting Poverty Scholars Program, administered by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

WashU Night at the Ballpark will be Sept. 5, when the Cardinals face the San Francisco Giants. Employees who purchase tickets by July 19 or Aug. 22 will be entered in raffles to win autographed baseballs.