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Plax honored by American Academy of Pediatrics

Katie Plax, MD, professor of pediatrics and director of the Division of Adolescent Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the Job Lewis Smith Award for outstanding community service from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Anthropology & Archaeology

‘Lost crops’ could have fed as many as maize

Lost crops
For thousands of years, goosefoot and knotweed were grown as crops, possibly feeding as many indigenous people of North America as corn. But the domesticated forms of these lost crops became lost over the years, and now a Washington University in St. Louis archaeologist is trying to figure out why — and recreate them.

CARE in Pregnancy team receives award from Generate Health

School of Medicine physicians Jeannie Kelly, Steve Liao, Hayley Friedman, Barbara Cohlan, Cynthia Rogers and Michael Wenzinger, together with nurses and social workers at Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children’s hospitals, received the Dr. Corinne Walentik Provider/Practitioner Champion Award from Generate Health.

Levin receives ABA award for legal scholarship

man in suit smiles at camera
Ronald Levin, the William R. Orthwein Distinguished Professor of Law at Washington University, has received the American Bar Association Administrative Law Section’s 2019 “Award for Best Scholarship” in the field published in 2018.

Joe part of working group on crisis of black youth suicide

Sean Joe, the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development at the Brown School, was part of a working group that this week released the report “Ring the Alarm: The Crisis of Black Youth Suicide in America.”
Medicine

Scientists find way to supercharge protein production

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have found a way to increase protein production up to a thousandfold, a discovery that could aid production of proteins used in the medical, food, agriculture, chemical and other industries.
Biology

Grain traits traced to ‘dark matter’ of rice genome

grains of rice
Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences discovered that rice domestication relied on selection for traits determined by a poorly understood portion of the rice genome.