The AI battlefield

In his new book, alumnus Paul Scharre discusses what’s at stake for global security and human freedom, as well as how the U.S. can maintain a leadership position amidst game-changing technology.

The owner’s box

Members of the Cotogna Sports Group, including Fitzann Reid (center) and fellow owners Richard de Meo (left) and Prabhdeep Singh Sekhon on the court of the Italian basketball team Pallacanestro Trieste.
For lawyer, investment group co-founder and sports fan Fitzann Reid, JD ’12, owning an Italian basketball team is the first step to writing her own rules as an international sports executive.

Empowering teachers

Andrew Eason is an innovative fifth-grade teacher at Ashland Elementary, a Saint Louis Public School that’s part of the Community Partnership Network. Participating in the Transformational Leadership Initiative through WashU’s Institute for School Partnership, the school has seen marked improvements in students meeting math and science standards. (Photo: Whitney Curtis/Washington University)
WashU’s Institute for School Partnership is working with two underperforming elementary schools in St. Louis to develop creative teacher-leaders, and the results show marked improvement in student performance.

Wonder, enchantment and the epic of evolution

Ursula Goodenough, professor emerita of biology, recently released the second edition of her book "The Sacred Depths of Nature."
As a biology faculty member, Professor Emerita Ursula Goodenough invited non-science majors to understand and reflect on the history of life on Earth. The second edition of her book, The Sacred Depths of Nature: How Life Has Emerged and Evolved, brings the wondrous saga to a new audience.

Clinical utility, not ‘prettiness’

reconstructed medical images
In a study published in Medical Physics, researchers in the lab of Abhinav Jha at the McKelvey School of Engineering evaluated artificial intelligence techniques for cleaning up medical images based on performance in clinical tasks.

Cooper to study spine development

John A. Cooper, MD, PhD, a professor in biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the School of Medicine, received a one-year $613,251 grant from National Institute of Mental Health, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Glitches in the matrix

Glitches in the matrix
As reported in a paper in Nature Communications, physicist Chong Zu in Arts & Sciences and his team are finding new ways to harness the quantum power of defects in otherwise flawless crystals. 

Diagnosis of rare, genetic muscle disease improved by new approach

Researchers at the School of Medicine have developed an approach that could help doctors distinguish between the many subtypes of limb girdle muscular dystrophy, a rare, genetic muscle disease. With new therapies poised to enter the clinic, identifying the precise subtype is necessary to ensure access to the most appropriate treatment.