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Americans favor voluntary mental health care amid federal push for forced treatment

A WashU public health researcher finds that there is bipartisan backing for crisis hotlines, walk-in centers and peer support — diverging from federal policies expanding forced treatment.

Art & Design

Betha Whitlow

As director of the Digital Art History Lab, Betha Whitlow provides work experiences to students that are both fruitful and fairly compensated. She wants the same for her WashU colleagues. On the Danforth Staff Council, she successfully advocated for parental leave.

Medicine

$4.87 million grant supports development of sepsis diagnostic device

A U.S. Department of Defense award will help WashU Medicine researchers develop a test to quickly group sepsis patients into risk categories based on their levels of two inflammatory biomarkers.

Space

WashU tapped for key role in future Artemis moon missions

In July, NASA formally designated WashU’s Geosciences Node, a division of NASA’s Planetary Data System that has been on campus since 1989, to serve as the lead science data node for the Artemis II, III and IV missions.

Medicine

McCoy sheds light on bacterium that causes acne

A study led by William H. McCoy IV, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Dermatology at WashU Medicine, has identified an important way that Cutibacterium acnes bacteria thrives on human skin.

Climate & Environment

A silver lining in sewer sludge: volatile fatty acids

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are finding ways to efficiently reclaim useful intermediary chemicals from sewage instead of a more energy-intensive process for biogas reclamation.

Literature

Loewenstein wins NSF digital infrastructure grant

Joe Loewenstein, a professor of English and director of the Humanities Digital Workshop and the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities, all in Arts & Sciences, will serve as co-principal investigator for a $798,000 Human Networks and Data Science grant from the National Science Foundation.

Medicine

Working together, cells extend their senses

image of a cluster of cells, amoeba like blob

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have found new rules for how groups of cells can sense beyond their surrounding environment, which can help in tracking how cancer moves and how wounds heal.

Physical Sciences

New quantum sensors can withstand extreme pressure

With National Science Foundation support, physicists at Washington University in St. Louis have created quantum sensors that track stress and magnetism at pressures exceeding 30,000 times Earth’s atmosphere.

Campus & Facilities

Advisory committee leads way on inclusive excellence, welcomes input

The Inclusive Excellence Advisory Committee is actively working to develop guidance that will help WashU advance its commitments to diversity and inclusion. The committee will recommend systems and structures that allow students, faculty and staff to engage with university values in line with civil rights laws.