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Students

04.29.24

Artists play instruments
Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

Statement regarding campus protest

Bosse and other details on the west facade of Brookings Hall.
We are firmly committed to free expression and allow ample opportunity for voices to be heard on our campus. However, we expect everyone to respect our policies and we will take swift action to enforce them to their fullest extent.
Awards & Notables

Faculty named to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Brookings Hall
Four Washington University in St. Louis faculty are among 250 newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies. They are John Atkinson, MD, Pauline Kim, Adia Harvey Wingfield and Jeffrey Zacks.
Medicine

Smart nanoparticles may be able to deliver drugs to heart after heart attack

AI-generated image of a heart with tiny particles surrounding it
Jianjun Guan, a materials scientist in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, received a four-year more than $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to design a system of nanoparticles that deliver drugs after a heart attack much more effectively than current methods allow.
Neuroscience & Memory

Atlas with annotated neuropathology images launched

neuropathology image from ALS case
Robert Schmidt, MD, PhD, a professor of pathology and immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has curated a collection of over 33,000 individually annotated neuropathology images that are now available as a resource to the Washington University and international neuroscience community via a newly launched website.
Engineering

Imaging technique shows new details of peptide structures

Single-molecule orientation–localization microscopy captures fluorescence from Nile red molecules as they transiently bind to fibrils composed of engineered KFE8 peptides. (Image: Weiyan Zhou)
In a paper published in ACS Nano, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis outline how they used a chemical probe to light up interlocking peptides. Their technique will help scientists differentiate synthetic peptides from toxic types found in Alzheimer’s disease.
Awards & Notables

Pei named to national board on first-year student experience

move-in day
Katharine Pei, director of Student Transitions & Family Programs at Washington University in St. Louis, has been appointed to a four-year term on the national advisory board of the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina.