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Before test results, signs of COVID-19 are in water systems

Cover of Environmental Science Water Research & Technology with illustration of SARS-CoV-2 virus

Research from the lab of Fangqiong Ling at the McKelvey School of Engineering finds SARS-CoV-2 material in wastewater reflects illnesses in communities. It also helps establish guidance for future studies.

Space

Venus balloon prototype aces test flights

balloon inflating above the desert at sunrise

Paul Byrne, associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, is a science collaborator for a prototype aerial robotic balloon, or aerobot, built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Near Space Corp.

Politics

Post-Dobbs, Supreme Court’s legitimacy at risk

A demonstrator holding a sign reading "SCOTUS Term Limits" during a Bans off our Bodies rally following the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.

Public dissatisfaction with the Supreme Court’s rulings and its performance has been growing. New research by political scientist James Gibson in Arts & Sciences suggests the controversial Dobbs decision may have been the straw that broke the camel’s back.

Students

Senior Otto Brown wants WashU to vote

Senior Otto Brown wants to do everything he can to help students exercise their right to vote Nov. 8. And by everything, Brown means everything.

Alzheimer's

$9 million to fund study of ‘jumping genes’ in Alzheimer’s

A five-year $9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will fund research led by investigators at Washington University School of Medicine and at the University of Texas at San Antonio to answer how so-called transposable elements in DNA can influence Alzheimer’s disease.

Awards & Notables

Schreiber honored for cancer immunotherapy research

Robert D. Schreiber, the Andrew M. and Jane M. Bursky Distinguished Professor at the School of Medicine, has received the 2023 Richard V. Smalley Memorial Award from the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer.

Diversity & Inclusion

Student Briceño joins in Hispanic Heritage Foundation events

Nicole Briceño, a first-year student at Washington University, took part in the National LOFT Leadership Institute Open Space Summit and the 35th Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration in September in Washington.

Neuroscience & Memory

Research offers clues for treating fatal neurological disorder in kids

Research in animals led by Washington University and the Roslin Institute in Scotland shows that supplying a vital missing enzyme helps to improve CLN1 disease, a rare but fatal brain disorder.

Finance

Nobel Prize awarded to WashU economist Philip Dybvig

Philip H. Dybvig, a banking and finance expert at Washington University in St. Louis, is one of three economists to share the 2022 Nobel Prize in economic sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday, Oct. 10.

Students

Olin-Chancellor’s Fellowship to expand opportunities for diverse, talented graduate students

The newly formed Ann W. and Spencer T. Olin-Chancellor’s Fellowship will merge two long-standing programs — the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Fellowship for Women in Graduate Study and the Chancellor’s Graduate Fellowship — into a single program designed to attract graduate students representing a variety of diverse backgrounds.