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Richard W. Coles, former director of Tyson Research Center, 83

Richard W. (Dick) Coles, who served as the inaugural director of Tyson Research Center and also as an adjunct professor of biology for more than 25 years, died in December in Colorado. He was 83. A celebration of life for Coles is planned for 1 p.m. April 29 at Tyson Research Center in Eureka, Mo.

Advancement

Noémi Neidorff pledges to establish endowed professorship in Arts & Sciences

The inaugural recipient of the Kornitzer Distinguished Professorship will be Diana Z. O’Brien, a professor of political science in Arts & Sciences. She will be formally installed in a ceremony this fall.

Politics

WashU’s Weidenbaum Center joins Harvard’s peer pre-review consortium

A new partnership between the Weidenbaum Center and Harvard University will give social scientists at Washington University the opportunity to receive constructive, anonymous feedback on their research at any stage. The program aims to improve scholarship and speed its publication.

Campus & Community

04.19.23

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

Academics

Task force on Danforth Campus climate, culture begins work

A special task force has formed to examine the climate and culture between faculty mentors and graduate and professional students or postdoctoral fellows on Washington University in St. Louis’ Danforth Campus, Provost Beverly Wendland announced.

Engineering

Distinguishing real from fake in the age of synthetic images

Abhinav Jha, an assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering and the School of Medicine, and his collaborators developed and evaluated two methods to quantitatively determine the realism of synthetic, or computer-generated, medical images.