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The Missouri Public Health Association has awarded WashU’s Emergency Support Team the Group Merit Award for its significant contribution to public health in Missouri.

Lisa Weingarth, senior advisor for St. Louis initiatives at WashU, has been appointed to the board of the United Way of Greater St. Louis.

The Campus Y will host a universitywide blood drive Tuesday, Sept. 10, and Wednesday, Sept. 11, at Umrath Hall Lounge on the Danforth Campus. Donors can give blood from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. 

Older Chinese people who transition from wage earners to self-employment report lower self-rated health than those remaining in waged jobs, finds a study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

A team of WashU undergraduate students recently competed in regional and national Arabic debate competitions.

Trained as an engineer, Janie Brennan, a senior lecturer at the WashU McKelvey School of Engineering, now builds courses instead of machines. She’s using her classroom to peel away systemic and cultural barriers to engineering. 

Bill Smith, a longtime employee and former associate vice chancellor at Washington University in St. Louis, died Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. He was 80.

Sophia Hayes, in Arts & Sciences, co-authored a study on strategic directions guiding high magnetic field science with pursuits in chemistry, medical MRI, low-temperature physics, superconducting materials and fusion. Challenges to the helium supply figured prominently throughout.

A computer scientist at Washington University has received funding from Google to improve grounding in large language models.

A team of researchers that includes scientists from Washington University have received $1.5 million grant from the Human Frontier Science Program to study a potentially transformative new mode of cell-to-cell communication.