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Emergency communication test Sept. 20

Washington University Emergency Management plans to test its emergency communication system at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 20.

Public Health

Ssewamala awarded $3.2M to study strategies for HIV treatments among Ugandan youth

Fred Ssewamala, the William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor at the Brown School, received a five-year $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to lead a study on intervention strategies for HIV treatments among Ugandan youth. The study could advance intervention science for HIV care globally.

Engineering

How do cells take out the trash?

Illustration of unfolded proteins sticking together

New research led by Kiersten Ruff, a senior research scientist in the lab of Rohit Pappu at the McKelvey School of Engineering, has uncovered the rules that govern how unfolded proteins are identified — and found that exceptions to the rules may play a role in dysfunctional cells.

Psychology

Problems persist for kids exposed to cannabis in the womb

Silhouette of a child in a screen full of pot leaves

Research from Ryan Bogdan’s BRAIN Lab in Arts & Sciences finds signs of psychopathology persist into mid-adolescence in kids exposed to cannabis in the womb.

Engineering

Evaluation of AI for medical imaging: A key requirement for clinical translation

To develop guidelines to evaluate artificial intelligence (AI) in nuclear-medicine imaging, an interdisciplinary team established by Richard L. Wahl, MD, director of Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) and led by Abhinav Jha, assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, published Recommendations for Evaluation of AI for Nuclear Medicine in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Students