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Kara Andres, a postdoctoral fellow with the Living Earth Collaborative, collected samples from Simpson Lake in Valley Park, Mo., one of about 800 lakes worldwide that were surveyed on the UN’s International Day of Biodiversity.

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

Hani Zaher, a professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, published a study in Molecular Cell that dives into the mechanisms behind the ways cells respond to stress.

Arpita Bose, an associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, will travel to Belgium next year to continue her work on the green potential of purple bacteria.

Mark Oppenheimer, a well-known religion journalist and author, is the new executive editor of Religion & Politics, an online journal published by WashU’s John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics.

School of Medicine researchers have joined an international study aimed at understanding the gene changes that may lead to Parkinson’s disease in Black and African American people.

Brendan P. Lucey, MD, a professor of neurology at the School of Medicine, has been awarded the 2024 Sleep Science Award from the American Academy of Neurology in recognition of his distinguished contributions to the neurology and neuroscience of sleep.

Naresha Saligrama, an assistant professor of neurology at the School of Medicine, has received a $200,000 grant from the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund to investigate whether other aspects of the immune system also contribute to the disease, specifically T cells.

John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD, the Virginia E. and Sam J. Golman Endowed Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship for his research contributions.

Washington University in St. Louis was ranked among the top 100 U.S. universities granted patents in 2023, according to a report released June 4 by the National Academy of Inventors.