Watershed moments

Derek Hoeferlin, chair of Landscape Architecture & Urban Design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, leads students on a canoe trip along the Mississippi River, near the Chain of Rocks Bridge north of downtown St. Louis. The outing was part of Hoeferlin’s fall 2020 studio “Field Work 2.0,” which combined virtual and on-the-ground methods of documenting how various communities intersect with surrounding territories, watersheds and infrastructure. (Photo: Danny Reise)
The effects of climate change cannot be handled piecemeal, argues Derek Hoeferlin. Managing 21st-century waterways will require coordination on a continental scale — and a foundational understanding of how water shapes our environment.

Keeping hackers at bay

As we become more reliant on technology that interacts with the physical world — self-driving cars, delivery drones, medical equipment — we need researchers like Ning Zhang to help keep us a step ahead of the hackers.

Vaccination clinic volunteers needed

With COVID-19 vaccination appointments now available through Washington University in St. Louis for all students, faculty, staff and their family members ages 18 and over, the university needs volunteers to help staff the vaccination clinic on the Medical Campus.