Undergraduate tuition at Washington University in St. Louis will be $57,750 for the 2021-22 academic year — a $1,450 (2.6%) increase over the 2020-21 academic tuition of $56,300, announced Amy B. Kweskin, vice chancellor for finance and chief financial officer.
Sean Joe, the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development at the Brown School, has been elected president of the Society for Social Work and Research.
Kenneth R. Boschert, DVM, associate director of the Division of Comparative Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine, has received the Charles A. Griffin Award from the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science. The award recognizes those in veterinary medicine who have demonstrated ethical scientific or technological advancements in humane experimentation or improved animal care practices.
Mary McKay, the Neidorff Family and Centene Corporation Dean of the Brown School, has been elected as the incoming president of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, and Renee Cunningham-Williams, associate professor at the Brown School, was inducted as an academy fellow.
Washington University in St. Louis researchers will soon have better access to important government data in economics, demography, urban and regional development, health care and other fields. The U.S. Census Bureau has approved plans for a Federal Statistical Research Data Center branch at Washington University in St. Louis, tentatively scheduled to open during the 2022-23 academic year.
Researchers in the St. Louis region will soon have better access to important government data in economics, demography, urban and regional development, health care and other fields. The U.S. Census Bureau has approved plans to open a Federal Statistical Research Data Center branch at Washington University in St. Louis. The branch will be supported by a consortium four St. Louis-based research institutions — the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Saint Louis University, University of Missouri-St. Louis and Washington University.
Researchers at the School of Medicine and Whiterabbit.ai have developed a software that assesses breast density and can help identify women who could benefit from additional screening.
In a small study, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine found that only women whose tumors responded to estrogen challenge benefited from hormone therapy. The findings could help doctors choose the treatments most likely to help their patients.
The School of Law’s Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series spring lineup kicks off Feb. 4 with Gregory Magarian giving the lecture “The First Amendment and the Mess We’re In: From the Streets to the Cloud.”
Plant and animal cells rely on the versatile microtubule cytoskeleton. Researchers in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis received new funding from the National Institutes of Health to uncover the inner workings of these structures, including how they change configuration based on a cell’s needs.
