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Wash U Expert: Police body cameras can be effective if used properly
As part of the White House response to unrest in
Ferguson, President Barack Obama has proposed $263 million for police
body camers and training. While body cameras can be effective,
they only work if the police don’t turn them off or delete their
records, says a privacy expert at Washington University in St. Louis.
Tovar receives workforce training grant
Molly Tovar, EdD, director of the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies and professor of practice in the Brown School, has received a $710,505, three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for her project, “Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training for Professionals and Paraprofessionals.”
Vaccines may make war on cancer personal
In the near future, physicians may treat some cancer
patients with personalized vaccines that spur their immune systems to
attack malignant tumors. New research led by scientists at the School of Medicine including senior author Robert Schreiber, PhD, has brought the approach one
step closer to reality.
Wash U Expert: Law professor calls for do-over in Ferguson case
The St. Louis County Circuit Court has the authority to
seek and appoint a special prosecutor to present the case involving
Michael Brown’s death to a new grand jury — and should do so, a law
professor at Washington University in St. Louis said.
Tibetan cultures settled world’s ‘roof top’ 3,600 years ago, study finds
Xinyi Liu Barley harvest in Zuoni County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. An archaeology dig on the “roof of the world” has yielded evidence that humans figured out much earlier than previously known how to survive year-round in farming and grazing settlements in extreme high-altitude regions of the Tibetan Plateau, finds research released Nov. 20 in […]
Finding features that support exercise in workplace neighborhoods
Neighborhood features such as bike facilities and low
crime rates are associated with increased leisure and workplace-related
physical activity, according to a new study from the Prevention Research Center at Washington University in St. Louis.
Brown School student, alum are first same-sex couple legally married in Missouri
Sadie Pierce (left) and her partner, Lilly Leyh, became the first same-sex couple to legally marry in Missouri earlier this month. Leyh is set to graduate in May with master’s degrees in social work and business administration, and Pierce is a recent alum of the Brown School.
Protein that rouses the brain from sleep may be target for Alzheimer’s prevention
A protein that stimulates the brain to awaken from
sleep may be a target for preventing Alzheimer’s disease, a study by School of Medicine researchers suggests. David M. Holtzman, MD, head of the Department of Neurology, is the study’s senior author.
Three WUSTL faculty named AAAS fellows
Three faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. They are Mary C. Dinauer, MD, PhD, David M. Holtzman, MD, and Robert G. Kranz, PhD.