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Black Rep launches 45th season with ‘Sweat’

The Black Rep launches its 45th season with a new production of “Sweat,” Lynn Nottage’s 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, in WashU’s Edison Theatre through Sept. 26.

Athletics

Celebrating WashU Athletics’ return to full competition

For the first time since the pandemic began, in spring of 2020, all of Washington University’s varsity athletic teams are returning to competition. In this video, we celebrate all of our scholar-champions as they prepare to start the 2021-22 season.

Awards & Notables

WashU ranked top Missouri employer by Forbes

Washington University was ranked the top employer in Missouri on Forbes 2021 list of “America’s Best Employers.”

Science & Technology

New deep learning method boosts MRI results without requiring new data

Side-by-side comparisons of reconstructed MRI images

Researchers from the McKelvey School of Engineering and the School of Medicine developed software to improve MRI images without the need for new hardware or data.

Awards & Notables

Researcher wins NIH grant

Janice L. Robertson, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the School of Medicine, received a four-year $1.39 million renewal grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for her research titled “Driving forces of membrane protein assembly in membranes.”

Physical Sciences

Bacteria could learn to predict the future

Using computer simulations and a simple theoretical model, physicist Mikhail Tikhonov in Arts & Sciences showed how bacteria could adapt to a fluctuating environment by learning its statistical regularities — for example, which nutrients tend to be correlated — and do so faster than evolutionary trial-and-error would normally allow.

Campus & Facilities

Emergency communication system to be tested Sept. 15

Washington University will test its emergency communication system at 9:55 a.m. Sept. 15. The tests ensure that the university can effectively communicate with the community in an emergency. The test will take place unless there is the potential for severe weather or an emergency is occurring at that time.

Cancer Research

Junior faculty conducting cancer research can seek grants

The School of Medicine is accepting applications for the American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant to support junior faculty conducting cancer research pilot projects.

Finance

‘The Downton Abbey Effect’: Olin dean researches unions between British aristocrats, American heiresses

“Downton Abbey” and a BBC miniseries based on Edith Wharton’s novel “The Buccaneers” inspired Olin Dean Mark P. Taylor to examine a historical trend.

Students

‘Bigger and better’ Commencement to move to Francis Olympic Field

Two big changes are coming to Commencement at Washington University. The annual ceremony is moving from Brookings Quadrangle to historic Francis Olympic Field. And, starting next year, Commencement will be followed by a celebration featuring lawn games, live entertainment and food from St. Louis eateries.