A debt of gratitude

For nearly two years during the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors, nurses and other medical staff have taken care of patients in the intensive care unit at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Here, nurse practitioner Marsha Johnson (blue cap); attending Rachel McDonald, MD (glasses); and other members of the care team confer outside a patient room on Nov. 5, 2020. (Matt Miller/Washington University School of Medicine)
Health-care workers at the Washington University School of Medicine have contributed greatly to regional and world health during the pandemic, and we owe them so much appreciation.

Smoothing the path

Victoria Fraser, MD, in the Bernard Becker Medical Library. (Photo: Matt Miller/Washington University School of Medicine)
Medical trailblazer Victoria Fraser, MD, focuses on creating equity in academic medicine.

Design for good

No other discipline operates at the intersection of innovation and creativity as does fashion, which has the power to change us and our world. Great fashion design not only makes us look better, it helps us be better. Here’s an in-depth look how.

Don’t smash that bug!

Bugs. We squish ’em, smash ’em, fear ’em, scare ’em, spray ’em, sweep ’em, flick ’em and generally misunderstand them. But perhaps it’s time we rethink our relationship to our tiny, multi-legged invertebrate friends who have been around since long before we humans got here — and will be here long after we’re gone. Insects […]