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Media advisory: WashU experts in path of totality on eclipse day

Five planetary scientists from WashU’s McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences are available to speak with reporters from the path of totality for the Monday, April 8, solar eclipse. The scientists will be at Bollinger Mill State Historic Site in southern Missouri, near Cape Girardeau.

Students

Student Union endows fund to support student leaders

In an effort to support and celebrate student leaders, Student Union, Washington University in St. Louis’ student government, has established a $2 million endowed fund for the Student Union Leadership Award.

Physical Sciences

Samples offer glimpse of active Earth 2.5 billion years ago

Research led by geochemist Rita Parai in Arts & Sciences offers a glimpse of Earth’s history by tracking infinitesimal levels of noble gases in volcanic rocks. The new study is published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Medicine

How does a person’s mobility affect cardiovascular health?

study participant Delphia Brown with researcher Kerri Morgan

A clinical trial led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is aimed at defining how exercise affects cardiovascular health in people who use wheelchairs.

Obituaries

Philip Needleman, emeritus trustee, longtime benefactor, 85

Philip Needleman, a Washington University in St. Louis emeritus trustee, longtime benefactor and former department head at the School of Medicine, died in an accident Monday, March 25, 2024, in Creve Coeur, Mo. He was 85.

Architecture

The hidden river

Mississippi River and downtown St. Louis

The Mississippi River defines St. Louis, shaping its life and culture. But today, for many St. Louisans, that connection has been broken, says Derek Hoeferlin, chair of landscape architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

St. Louis Region

‘In St. Louis, For St. Louis’ initiative expands with new spaces for regional collaboration

Washington University is expanding its “In St. Louis, For St. Louis” initiative with a new office and virtual front door.

Engineering

Bersi receives CAREER award

Matthew Bersi, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, will use pioneering optics-based mechanical testing and imaging techniques to study the aorta with a five-year $575,000 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.

Advancement

Durkee installed as William Gardiner Hammond Professor of Law

Melissa Durkee (right) with Dean Russell Osgood

Melissa J. Durkee, a professor of law, has been installed as the William Gardiner Hammond Professor of Law at Washington University. A ceremony was held March 20 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall.

Mental Health

Understanding how anxious misery affects brain networks aim of new grant

Janine Bijsterbosch, an assistant professor of radiology at the School of Medicine, is part of a team of five co-principal investigators studying how symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress — together known as anxious misery — affect functional brain networks. The team received a $3.6 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health.