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Flags lowered in memory of former President Jimmy Carter

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff in memory of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter until sunset Jan. 28. Carter died Dec. 29 at age 100.

Medicine

Immune-targeted approach helps control tuberculosis in mice

Scanning electron microscopy of infected neutrophils

Mice infected with the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB) fared better when treated with an experimental compound that modulates immune responses, according to a study led by Christina Stallings, a professor of molecular microbiology at WashU Medicine.

Campus & Facilities

Holiday light recycling ends Jan. 16

WashU’s annual recycling drive for old or broken holiday lights is underway and runs through Thursday, Jan. 16. Collection bins are available on the Medical, Danforth, West and North campuses as well as The Link at the Loop.

Psychology

Brain structure differences provide clues to substance use risks

Teen girl bedroom with vape pen and bottles of beer

Researchers at Washington University found correlations between types of brain structure and people who try drugs before age 15.

Psychology

How to make resolutions that stick

Woman in exercise clothing sits in a yoga pose overlooking forested hills

People should be strategic about how and when they set new goals, according to positive psychology researcher Tim Bono at Washington University.

Medicine

$5 million NIH grant to find causes of chronic pain after surgery

WashU Medicine researchers have been awarded nearly $5 million to better understand what causes pain symptoms to persist in some patients recovering from surgery.

Obituaries

Jerome Sincoff, former architecture dean, 91

Jerome J. Sincoff, a former dean of architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, died in hospice Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024. He was 91.

Literature

Ullman receives literary article recognition

Alex Ullman, a postdoctoral fellow in WashU’s Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, will receive a 2024 William Riley Parker Prize honorable mention from the Modern Language Association.

Photo Opportunity: WashU Police Department distributes bikes to children Saturday

The Washington University Police Department, in partnership with the St. Louis Police Foundation and the SLMPD’s North Patrol Division, will distribute free bicycles and gifts to some 85 children from Camp Sunsplash, a free summer camp in Fairground Park that serves lower-income families.

Medicine

Lavine receives grant to study congenital heart disease

Kory Lavine, MD, PhD, the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Cardiology at WashU Medicine, has received a $600,000 grant from the Additional Ventures Foundation — an organization that funds research into congenital heart disease — to study hypoplastic left heart syndrome.