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St. Louis International Film Festival screenings begin on campus Nov. 10

WashU will host more than a dozen screenings as part of the 32nd Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival. The citywide event showcases the best in contemporary cinema.

Obituaries

Sue Taylor, longtime music instructor, 85

Sue Taylor, a longtime teacher of applied music in harp in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, died peacefully at home Oct. 30. She was 85.

Mental Health

Key Medicare payment model fails to improve mental health

A widespread Medicare program that aims to improve health care and lower costs by providing financial incentives to doctors and hospitals resulted in no improvements in mental health care, according to a study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and the Yale School of Public Health.

Students

Lembke invited to White House for AI ceremony

Junior Emma Lembke, founder of the internet safety organization Log Off, was invited to the White House Oct. 30 to observe President Joe Biden sign an executive order establishing new standards for artificial intelligence safety and security.

Engineering

Research network to focus on AI, integrated circuits

Shantanu Chakrabartty, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, will lead the Neuromorphic Integrated Circuits Education network, a team that is looking at the brain and its neural mechanisms as a model for hardware and algorithms that make the most of computational performance with the least amount of power.

Engineering

Using machine learning to boost amorphous metals

Katharine Flores at the McKelvey School of Engineering will collaborate on a National Science Foundation-funded project to build simulation-informed models that predict material properties in 3D-printed metallic glasses

Awards & Notables

McLeod Writing Prize winners named

The College Writing Program in Arts & Sciences celebrated the winners of this year’s Dean James E. McLeod First-Year Writing Prize this fall and marked the prize’s 10th anniversary.

Climate & Environment

Study links changes in global water cycle to higher temperatures

Research led by Bronwen Konecky in Arts & Sciences takes an important step toward reconstructing a global history of water over the last 2,000 years.

Awards & Notables

Fagan receives lifetime achievement award from Alzheimer’s Association

Anne Fagan, an internationally recognized expert on fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease and a professor of neurology at the School of Medicine, has been named the 2023 recipient of the Khalid Iqbal Lifetime Achievement Award by the Alzheimer’s Association.

Cancer Research

Epigenome’s role in cancer revealed in new study

Scientists at the School of Medicine have analyzed the epigenomes of tumor cells across 11 cancer types and revealed important roles for this regulatory system of the genome in the way cancer forms, grows and spreads.