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‘Homecoming Voices’

When COVID-19 upended the season, WashU’s Performing Arts Department turned to alumni playwrights.

Author V. E. Schwab adds some magic to everyday life

Over the course of 20 novels and now a new Netflix series, author V. E. Schwab has drawn together magic and reality to create unforgettable stories.

Supply Chain Management

In a business famed for slow and patient aging, it’s been a meteoric rise. Just six years ago, former WashU roommates David Mandell and Daniel Linde stood on a rolling cornfield at the eastern edge of Bardstown, Kentucky. Today, the 100-acre site is home to their Bardstown Bourbon Company, already one of the world’s largest bourbon distilleries.

Public Health

The COVID-19 vaccines are a scientific breakthrough. But are they enough?

COVID-19 vaccines rolled out on an unprecedented timetable, but the world is still at risk.

Students

The ‘Final 40’

Recent graduates (from left) Tim Tague, Jazmin Garcia and Astrella Sjarfi shot a single second of video every day for their final 40 days as WashU students. These parting shots are a perfect bookend to the beginning of their college careers when they documented a second of video every day of their first 40 days. (Photo: Whitney Curtis/Washington University)

Three graduates document their final days as Washington University students.

Campus & Community

Celebrating our community

In this issue, we celebrate our recent graduates and look at the many ways our students, faculty and alumni — through scholarship, pedagogy and community engagement — contribute to the greater good.

Medicine

COVID-19 dual-antibody therapies effective against variants in animal study

researchers prepare to work with SARS-CoV-2

New research at Washington University School of Medicine suggests that many COVID-19 therapies made from combinations of two antibodies are effective against a wide range of variants of the virus.

Awards & Notables

Wrighton receives LaunchCode Moonshot Award

Chancellor Emeritus Mark S. Wrighton received a 2021 Moonshot Award this month from LaunchCode, a St. Louis-based nonprofit focused on teaching people to code, in recognition of his work on the STL2030 Jobs Plan.

Awards & Notables

Bergom honored by Radiation Research Society

Carmen R. Bergom, MD, PhD, associate professor of radiation oncology at the School of Medicine, will receive the 2021 Michael Fry Research Award from the Radiation Research Society. The annual award recognizes a junior scientist who has made extraordinary contributions to the field of radiation research.

Business & Entrepreneurship

Crisis or momentary blip? Explaining inflation concern

Although most likely temporary, inflation expectations could become self-fulfilling prophesy, according to John Horn, professor of practice in economics at Olin Business School.

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