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Bauers’ generous gift will establish leadership academy for Danforth Scholars

George and Carol Bauer, longtime generous benefactors of Washington University in St. Louis, have made a $6 million commitment to establish a new leadership and character development initiative at the university.

Diversity & Inclusion

University recommits to American Talent Initiative

Washington University has renewed its commitment to the American Talent Initiative’s Accelerating Opportunity campaign, a nationwide effort to graduate an additional 50,000 low- and moderate-income students from ATI member colleges and universities by 2025.

Appointments & Promotions

Acree appointed interim co-director of race, equity center

William Acree, professor of Spanish in Arts & Sciences, has been appointed interim co-director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2) at Washington University. Acree has served as a CRE2 associate director since the center’s founding in 2019.

Biology

Male dragonflies lose their ‘bling’ in hotter climates

A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences led by Michael Moore, a postdoctoral fellow with the Living Earth Collaborative, finds that dragonfly males have consistently evolved less breeding coloration in regions with hotter climates.

Science & Technology

Sculpted by starlight: A meteorite witness to the solar system’s birth

Overlay of the Carina nebula on a piece of meteorite

Researchers examine a 4.6 billion- year-old rock to better understand the solar system’s beginning, and a modern mystery.

Public Health

COVID-19 aggravates antibiotic misuse in India

Antibiotic sales soared during India’s first surge of COVID-19, suggesting that the drugs were inappropriately used to treat mild and moderate COVID-19 infections, according to research led by the School of Medicine. Such overuse increases the risk for drug-resistant infections worldwide.

Awards & Notables