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Public comments welcome during WashU PD reaccreditation process

WashU Police Department shield on window

The Washington University in St. Louis Police Department is in the process of pursuing reaccreditation by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA). That organization is accepting public comments about WashU PD.

Awards & Notables

Jabbari receives grant to study social mobility

Jason Jabbari, an assistant professor at the Brown School, has received a two-year $352,943 grant from Arnold Ventures to evaluate the impact of the Cristo Rey Network’s professional work-based learning model on social mobility and racial equity.

Awards & Notables

Eberlein named president-elect of American College of Surgeons

Timothy J. Eberlein, MD, director of Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WashU Medicine, has been active within the American College of Surgeons for many years, including serving as chair of the board from 2022-2023.

Engineering

Disrupting infectious diseases

illustration of wet cyclone tool in virus detector

With a grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, a multi-institutional research team led by scientists at Virginia Tech and Washington University in St. Louis will develop an indoor air device to disrupt transmission of infectious disease.

St. Louis Region

Weingarth named to local nonprofit’s board

Lisa Weingarth, senior advisor to the chancellor and executive director of WashU’s “In St. Louis, For St. Louis” initiative, recently accepted a post on the Great Rivers Greenway Foundation board of directors.

Advancement

McKinnon installed as Clark Way Harrison Distinguished Professor

William B. McKinnon, a professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, was recently installed as the Clark Way Harrison Distinguished Professor.

Supply Chain Management

Kouvelis named 2025 INFORMS Fellow

Panos Kouvelis, director of the Boeing Center for Supply Chain Innovation at WashU, has been named a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, akin to a lifetime achievement award.

Law

No such thing as presidential ‘removal power’ in early America, paper finds

A new paper from Andrea Katz, associate professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis and expert on constitutional law and presidential power, disputes a long-standing claim that America’s founders agreed the president holds an unrestricted power to fire executive officials.

Mental Health

Social conflict among strongest predictors of teen mental health concerns

A new study by WashU researchers showed that family fights and peer bullying outweighed other risk factors for depression and other mental health problems, with adolescent girls suffering more than boys.

Psychology

Research shows anger, not fear, shifts political beliefs

two beams of light representing the two world trade towers

Research from a psychologist at Washington University in St. Louis has found that anger is the emotion that can drive abrupt shifts in political attitudes.