Perspectives

The best way to keep children safe — and reduce investigations — is not to go upstream. Rather, we must train and support our child protection agencies to protect endangered children the first time a concerned relative, teacher or other community member calls the hotline, writes Sarah Font.

We can follow a path that is costly, punitive, and misaligned with science. Or we can proactively invest in approaches like the Teen Center of Excellence that produce healthy young adults who can transition into the workforce and contribute to the economic viability of the state of Missouri, writes Dennis W. Boyd Jr.

Diplomacy and love involve making the other person want to stay. Anxiety can disguise itself as desire for a short time, but not in the long run, writes Liberty Vittert.

Mechanical engineer Amit Pathak, at WashU McKelvey Engineering, joins a podcast to explain his research, which focuses on mechanobiology, or how cells respond to their environment. The work has applications in cancer’s spread, wound healing and tissue engineering.

Following the lead of other states, the Missouri legislature should modify the Police Officer Bill of Rights to allow for commonsense transparency, including disclosure and review of deidentified internal investigation record, write Sarah Font and Lindsday Bendell.

Quing Zhu, the Edwin H. Murty Professor of Engineering

Hannah Kinzer, a PhD candidate at WashU Public Health, writes about her research studying how diseases move through people, animals and the environment.

PAT could be a breakthrough treatment for individuals from historically marginalized communities, but concerted, intentional efforts must be made to proactively address affordability, accessibility, workforce issues, and insurance coverage, write Leopoldo Cabassa and Kevin Xu.

The $902 million NIH invested in WashU’s research enterprise last year through grants and contracts translated to 9,080 jobs and $2.13 billion in economic activity right here at home, writes Chancellor Andrew D. Martin.

The St. Louis County Jail has done a remarkable job through hard work to get it to the level that it operates today; everyone should celebrate this but also sustain the effort, writes Timothy McBride.