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The business of beauty

Two WashU alums and one current student helped take a cosmetics startup from a dream to a reality.

Alum Joey Clarke Jr won the international screenwriting competition The Academy Nicholl Fellowship, which is presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (the same group that awards Oscars). Here he shares his tips for screenwriting.

Campus & Community

My Washington: Beanie and Drew Spangler

Carolyn “Beanie” Reuter, AB ’94, and Drew Spangler, AB ’93, BS ’93

Swimming for WashU brought them together. Today, a passion for providing access to learning keeps them on the university’s team.

Campus & Community

Young alumni take the lead

From left: Alexa Greenberg, AB ’18; Danielle Carley, BSBA ’18; Allison Swimmer, AB ’17; Sara Bernstein, BSBA ’18; enjoy the New York Young Alumni Gala at Capitale in the Bowery, Sept. 6, 2019. (Photo: Jennifer Weisbord, BFA ’92)

Many cities around the globe boast robust young alumni populations whose members are collaborating with WashU staff to organize activities tailored to alumni interests.

Science & Technology

Predicting chaos using aerosols and AI

Using aerosols as ground truth, researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a deep learning method that accurately simulates chaotic trajectories — from the spread of poisonous gas to the path of foraging animals.

Humanities & Society

Suicidal thoughts in 9- and 10-year-olds correlate to family dynamics

Research from Washington University in St. Louis shows a nontrivial rate of children as young as 9 and 10 years old are thinking about suicide. How their families interact — or don’t — may play a role.

Supply Chain Management

Coronavirus far greater threat than SARS to global supply chain

Panos Kouvelis, who teaches and helped to popularize the Waffle House Index regarding natural-disaster responses, says the outbreak’s impact on global supply chains promises to be two times worse than when the SARS virus emerged in 2002 in China.

Anthropology & Archaeology

No clear path for Golden Rice to reach consumers

Heralded as a genetically modified crop with the potential to save millions of lives, Golden Rice has just been approved as safe for human and animal consumption by regulators in the Philippines. But a new study by Glenn Davis Stone, professor of sociocultural anthropology and environmental studies in Arts & Sciences, finds that most families affected by Vitamin A deficiency can’t grow Golden Rice themselves, and most commercial farmers won’t grow it either.

Science & Technology

Collaboration lets researchers ‘read’ proteins for new properties

A collaboration between the McKelvey School of Engineering and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital uncovers the underlying rules that, when broken, contribute to neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS.

Campus & Community

Obituary: Susan W. Caine, former executive director of development communications, 68

Susan W. Caine, recently retired executive director of development communications at Washington University in St. Louis, died Feb. 2, 2020, following a lengthy struggle against brain cancer. She was 68.

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The business of beauty

How to be a film writer

My Washington: Beanie and Drew Spangler

Young alumni take the lead

Predicting chaos using aerosols and AI

Suicidal thoughts in 9- and 10-year-olds correlate to family dynamics

Coronavirus far greater threat than SARS to global supply chain

No clear path for Golden Rice to reach consumers

Collaboration lets researchers ‘read’ proteins for new properties

Obituary: Susan W. Caine, former executive director of development communications, 68