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Promoting resilience in health-care workers aim of new grant

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised stress levels among health-care workers, leading to burnout, depression and more. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have received a grant that aims to reduce workers’ burnout and promote their mental health and wellness.

Awards & Notables

Pediatric society names Brozanski, Wambach as new members

Beverly Brozanski, MD, professor of pediatrics, and Jennifer Wambach, MD, associate professor of pediatrics, both in the Department of Pediatrics’ Division of Newborn Medicine at the School of Medicine, have been named new members of the American Pediatric Society.

Awards & Notables

Murch wins naval research grant

Kater Murch in Arts & Sciences and collaborators at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis won a $750,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research.

Obituaries

Binyam Nardos, instructor in occupational therapy, neurology, 39

Binyam Nardos, an instructor in the Program in Occupational Therapy at Washington University School of Medicine, died Jan. 29 in St. Louis. He was 39.

Students

Happy to be ‘home’

Last fall, the Record profiled five members of the Class of 2025 who happened to sit near one another at a men’s soccer game. Five months later, the Record checks in with the students about their classes, clubs and new friends.

Awards & Notables

Shah wins Brooke Owens Fellowship

Engineering senior Vaishali Shah has been awarded the prestigious Brooke Owens Fellowship, which supports those interested in a career in the aerospace industry.

Awards & Notables

Sachs named fellow at USC-Brookings health policy initiative

Rachel Sachs, the Treiman Professor of Law at Washington University, has been selected as a nonresident fellow at the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy.

Medicine

COVID-19 infections increase risk of heart conditions up to a year later

An analysis of federal health data indicates that people who have had COVID-19 are at increased risk of developing cardiovascular complications within the first month to a year after infection, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System.

Campus & Facilities

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Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

Business & Entrepreneurship

Reimagining textile production

Cotton fabric is natural, renewable, biodegradable and at least theoretically sustainable. With her patented RECLEM process, WashU fashion associate professor Mary Ruppert-Stroescu hopes to revolutionize how recycled fabrics are processed and used to create new garments.