Americans trust their doctors, but doubt the system
The People’s Report Card, released by WashU’s QuEST Center and School of Public Health, grades U.S. health care on quality, cost, confidence and leadership.
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National 211 hotline calls for food assistance quadrupled in a matter of days, a magnitude typically seen during disasters
Data that documents the magnitude of need won’t fix the scarcity of local assistance, but it can help guide communities in allocating limited resources.
Access to water has a long racial history in Durban: I followed the story in the city’s archives
Today’s officials have inherited and inadvertently continue a water system that was meant to exclude more than include, to punish more than teach, to restrict more than provide, writes Kristin Brig-Ortiz.
Brewery waste can be repurposed to make nanoparticles that can fight bacteria
I’m a chemist, and my research team and I are interested in figuring out how to recycle and repurpose brewery waste into tiny particles that can be used to make new types of prescription drugs, writes Alcina Johnson Sudagar.
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Researcher for a day
WashU engineer Marcus Foston regularly hosts middle school students to learn about cutting-edge science. It’s part of WashU’s immersive “Researcher for a Day” program.
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The United States of no states?
What would America look like if there were no state governments? Stephen H. Legomsky, the John S. Lehmann University Professor Emeritus at WashU Law, tackles that question in his new book, “Reimagining the American Union: The Case for Abolishing State Government,” published by Cambridge University Press.