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Applied Particle Technology honored by Midwest Cleantech Open

Applied Particle Technology, a startup founded at Washington University, won the Breakthrough Technology Award at the Midwest Cleantech Open.

Medicine & Health

The brain’s wiring is linked to good – and bad – behavioral traits

The way our brains are wired may reveal a lot about us, according to new research co-authored by scientists at Washington University in St. Louis. For example, people with “positive” behavioral traits, such as sharp memories, many years of education and robust physical endurance, have stronger neural connections between certain brain regions than people with “negative” traits, such as smoking, aggressive behavior and a family history of alcohol abuse.

Campus & Community

The real cost of gun violence

As part of Washington University’s ongoing efforts to understand the public health implications of gun violence, Sandy and Lonnie Phillips visited the university to meet with students, faculty, administrators and community leaders. The Phillipses shared the personal tragedy of losing their daughter, Jessica, in the 2012 mass shooting in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado.

Medicine & Health

In kids, young adults with asthma, pay attention to weight gain

Following patients from childhood into young adulthood, a study led by Robert Strunk, MD, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows the progression toward worse lung function in those who become obese as they grow into young adulthood.

Arts & Culture

Arts & Sciences launches medical humanities minor

Rebecca Messbarger (left) and Corinna Treitel in the Kenneth and Nancy Kranzberg Art & Architecture Library.

In this Q&A, program founders Rebecca Messbarger and Corinna Treitel discuss the new minor in medical humanities, the development of the field and the relationship between the arts and sciences.

Green named to U.S. Health & Human Services advisory committee

Jonathan M. Green, MD, associate dean for human studies and executive chair of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Washington University, has been appointed to the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections (SACHRP) within the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. He will serve a three-year term.

Wright to deliver 2015 Homer G. Phillips Public Health Lecture

John A. Wright, PhD, author and historian, will speak at the 20th annual Homer G. Phillips Public Health Lecture Series at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis on Oct. 23. The title of his talk is “Homer G. Phillips and the Ville: Celebrating the Legacy.”

Kharasch named editor-in-chief of journal Anesthesiology

The American Society of Anesthesiologists has named Evan D. Kharasch, MD, PhD, of the School of Medicine, the new editor-in-chief of the journal Anesthesiology. Kharasch will assume the role of editor-in-chief-elect on Jan. 1, 2016, and then officially take on full editorial responsibility July 1.

Jacoby wins lifetime achievement award for contributions to experimental psychology

The Experimental Psychology Division (Division 3) of the American Psychological Association (APA) has awarded its 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award to Larry L. Jacoby, PhD, an internationally recognized scholar of human memory and a professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.

Campus & Community

Connecting service to studies

Washington University Guatemala Initiative

This past summer, a group of students from Washington University in St. Louis traveled to Guatemala to repair medical equipment at the nation’s largest public hospital. The trip was part of the Washington University Guatemala Initiative, supported by the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement.