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Barch earns lifetime achievement award from psychology group

Researcher Deanna Barch, a professor at WashU, has received a lifetime achievement award from the Association for Psychological Science.

Cancer Research

It’s never too late for those with cancer to quit smoking

Quitting smoking significantly increases survival time in cancer patients, particularly those with advanced-stage cancer, according to a study of an innovative smoking cessation program at WashU Medicine and Siteman Cancer Center.

Students

Well-being Wednesdays offer welcome break

Well-being Wednesdays, a Student Affairs initiative, offer the WashU community an opportunity to learn about wellness-related programs, buy fresh produce, enjoy a free cup of coffee and take a moment to relax.

Medicine

WashU researchers honored with NIH Director’s Awards

Three WashU investigators have been recognized with prestigious awards through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, which supports unconventional approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research.

Advancement

Montaño, Ramos named Georgie W. Lewis Career Development Professors

Diana J. Montaño and Christina Ramos, both faculty members in the Department of History in Arts & Sciences, have been selected as Georgie W. Lewis Career Development Professors.

Cultural Studies

How AI will change your career

What is artificial intelligence good at? What is it not good at? How might it reshape the employment landscape? Last spring, WashU’s Ian Bogost interviewed Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, chief technology officer at Meta, and others for Bogost’s class “How AI Will Change Your Career.”

Medicine

Researchers find key to stopping deadly infection

New research from WashU Medicine identified a key enzyme that enables rotavirus to infect cells. Disabling this enzyme prevented infection, suggesting new treatments against rotavirus and other pathogens that rely on similar mechanisms.

Obituaries

James Ballard, former director of Engineering Communication Center, 79

James “Jim” Clark Ballard, a former senior lecturer and director of the Engineering Communication Center in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, died Sept. 29 in St. Louis following a sudden cardiac arrest. He was 79.

Medicine

An inside look at the earliest stage of life

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have a developed a way to monitor mouse embryo development and predict successful blastocyst formation. The results of the study could help improve success rates of in vitro fertilization.

Health & Society

Implementing science across borders

WashU’s Prevention Research Center delivered its Evidence-Based Public Health training in Puerto Rico, strengthening local health workforce capacity to tackle chronic disease and limited resources.