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Mazzeo installed as inaugural Knight Family Professor

Mike Mazzeo, dean of Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, has been installed as the inaugural Knight Family Professor. The endowed position was made possible by the Knight family, longtime ardent supporters of the Olin, WashU and St. Louis communities.

Appointments & Promotions

Rosa-Molinar named director of cellular imaging center

Eduardo Rosa-Molinar has been named the new scientific director of the Washington University Center for Cellular Imaging and has joined the faculty of the Department of Cell Biology & Physiology and the Department of Neuroscience at the School of Medicine.

Engineering

Deep learning models can be trained with limited data

image of a white child used in training AI image tools

Researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University have developed a method that could reduce errors in computational imaging.

Diversity & Inclusion

WashU leader, alumni recognized for commitment to diverse workplaces

'Champions for Diversity and Inclusion' graphic

Four members of the WashU community are recipients of the St. Louis Business Journal’s 2024 Champions for Diversity & Inclusion Awards.

Climate & Environment

WashU researchers quantify solar absorption by black carbon in fire clouds

Aerosol scientists at Washington University have quantified the extent of light absorption by black carbon in fire clouds to better model climate impacts of extreme wildfire events.

Biology

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.