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Preserving our planet

WashU launches a new Center for the Environment where collaboration will be central to solving the immense and complex problems our planet is facing. (Courtesy photo)

The new Center for the Environment serves as a hub for cross-disciplinary collaboration, which is central to solving complex environmental problems.

Campus & Community

Making the case for WashU

Whether the issue involves the university and localized trash pickup, public safety, or advocating on how financial aid is provided to students across the country, J.D. Burton and his staff are on it.

Nearly one year into the job, J.D. Burton, vice chancellor for government relations, gives insight into what it’s like representing WashU in the political sector.

Business & Entrepreneurship

The boys of fall

Patrick Rishe (second from left), director of the Sports Business Program at WashU, poses with three members of the Texas Rangers' front office -- all WashU alumni. From left, Zack Kessinger, Sam Linker and Alexander Booth.

Three WashU alumni work in the Texas Rangers’ front office, helping the team win its first-ever World Series title.

Law

50 years of legal community service — and counting

Sarah Narkiewicz, associate dean for clinical education at the School of Law, works with Dinora Orozco (right) and other students in the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic, which she also directs. The law school’s clinical education program includes 12 clinics and seven externships, and in 2023 celebrated 50 years of helping the St. Louis community.

Students in the School of Law’s Clinical Education Program, now 50 years old, gain important skills while helping members of the community.

Supply Chain Management

Study: Machine learning can help optimize medical resource sharing in a crisis

Researchers at Olin Business School used a machine-learning model to test a better system for sharing medical supplies such as ventilators across the country in an emergency. Their work was published in the journal Annals of Operations Research.

Students

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Images from on and around the Washington University in St. Louis campuses.

Mental Health

Key regulator of decision-making pinpointed in brain

Researchers at the School of Medicine have found important clues to how people make choices involving obtaining information about the future. The scientists identified a set of mental rules that governs decision-making about rewards.

Psychology

Willroth receives SAGE award

Emily Willroth, an assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University, has received the SAGE Early Career Trajectory Award from the Society for Social and Personality Psychology.

Aging

Apte receives Catalyst Award for innovative approaches to research

Rajendra Apte (left) with Andrea Santeford

Rajendra Apte, MD, PhD, the Paul A. Cibis Distinguished Professor in the John F. Hardesty, MD, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences at the School of Medicine, has received a $300,000 Research to Prevent Blindness/American Macular Degeneration Foundation Catalyst Award.

St. Louis Region

Gateway STEM students visit campus for Kolbert Q&A

A teacher asks speaker Elizabeth Kolbert a question

For years, Gateway STEM High School students have read Pulitzer Prize-winning climate journalist Elizabeth Kolbert. On Feb. 12, they got to meet her at a special science storytelling program at Washington University in St. Louis. The event was sponsored by WashU’s Climate Across Curriculum program, which connects Gateway STEM in St. Louis Public Schools to faculty experts, campus tours and learning resources.