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University launches new interface for ONE.WUSTL portal

Washington University has launched a new user interface for ONE.WUSTL, a single sign-on portal that provides convenient access to hundreds of WashU services and systems. Information Technology will lead webinar training sessions about the new interface this week.

Awards & Notables

Greenberg recognized for work straddling race, religion

Maxwell Greenberg, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies in Arts & Sciences, has won a Warburg Research Grant for his work on Jewish pioneers in the American Southwest. In addition, Greenberg’s research on Jewish pioneer cemeteries will be used in Reconstructionist Rabbinical College’s new project on race, religion and Judaism.

Politics

Political scientists to study populist rhetoric as a threat to democracy

Washington University in St. Louis political scientists Christopher Lucas (right), Jacob Montgomery, and Margit Tavits won a $571,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the rise of populist rhetoric on social media and its effects on democracies.

Appointments & Promotions

Search committee appointed for government relations leader

Chancellor Andrew D. Martin and Provost Beverly Wendland have appointed a 10-member committee to identify candidates for the position of vice chancellor for government and community relations at Washington University in St. Louis.

Engineering

Faculty take part in Geospatial Institute event

Geo-resolution 2022, hosted by the Taylor Geospatial Institute, will bring together experts and students to use geospatial tech to predict and mitigate climate change.

Neuroscience & Memory

School of Medicine joins major NIH brain mapping effort

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine are joining a national network, supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to map the intricacies of the brain, with a goal of deepening knowledge of how the brain works and generating new insights into how the brain functions in healthy people — and how it malfunctions in Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia, autism and numerous other conditions.

Neuroscience & Memory

COVID-19 infections increase risk of long-term brain problems

A comprehensive analysis of federal data by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine shows people who have had COVID-19 are at an elevated risk of developing neurological conditions within the first year after infection.

Diversity & Inclusion

Coffeestamp opens location at Hillman Hall

Coffeestamp, a local coffee roaster and bakery, recently opened its second location at Washington University in St. Louis. Its arrival is another big win for the university’s supplier diversity strategy.

Sociology

How neighborhoods can protect — or harm — older adults’ cognitive health

People who lived in neighborhoods with ready access to civic and social organizations displayed higher cognitive scores than those who lived in neighborhoods with no immediate access to such organizations, finds a new study by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and University of Michigan.

Anthropology & Archaeology

Boyer to study ‘wild religions’

Sociocultural anthropologist Pascal Boyer, in Arts & Sciences, received a $2 million grant from the Templeton Religion Trust to examine historical and modern religious customs that fall outside of institutionalized religion.