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Daily rhythms depend on receptor density in biological clock

Tweaking the numbers of receptors in a key brain area changes the daily rhythms of rest and wake in mice, according to research led by Daniel Granados-Fuentes in Arts & Sciences, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Engineering

Iqbal earns runner-up in privacy tech award

A research paper by a computer scientist at Washington University has been named runner-up for the Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies.

Cancer Research

Study reveals how brain cancer evolves in response to treatment

School of Medicine researchers have shown how brain tumors evolve in response to therapy, helping describe how such cancers develop treatment resistance that leads to the high mortality rate characteristic of this cancer.

Diversity & Inclusion

McBride leads Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity

Dwight A. McBride, the Gerald Early Distinguished Professor in Arts & Sciences and a senior advisor to the chancellor, is the new executive director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity.

Diversity & Inclusion

STARS College Network expands

The STARS College Network, which partners with top colleges to help students from small towns and rural communities enroll in, succeed at and graduate from the undergraduate program of their choice, is doubling its membership to include 32 of the nation’s universities. WashU, a founding STARS member, is recruiting and enrolling more rural students since it joined the network last year.

Supply Chain Management

Dennis Zhang

Olin Business School’s Dennis Zhang says online platform design is improved by considering human decision-making alongside information algorithms.

Medicine

Pagliarini named HHMI Investigator

David Pagliarini, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He will receive approximately $11 million in funding over seven years in support of research on mitochondria.

Awards & Notables

Stitziel honored by American Heart Association

Nathan O. Stitziel, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine and of genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the American Heart Association’s Mid-Career Award in Genomic and Precision Medicine.

Chemistry

Chemists develop test to track crucial edits to RNA

A team of WashU chemists led by graduate student Alex Quillin in Arts & Sciences has developed a test that makes it possible to precisely track edits in cells, an advance that could lead to a new understanding of the origins of many illnesses.

Neuroscience & Memory

Can we predict who will develop migraine headaches?

Washington University School of Medicine scientist Hadas Nahman-Averbuch has received two grants totaling $6 million to investigate the risk factors for developing migraine headaches in adolescents.