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Use of antibiotics in preemies has lasting, potentially harmful effects

Nearly all babies born prematurely receive antibiotics. A new study from the School of Medicine suggests that such early antibiotic treatment could have long-lasting and potentially harmful effects on the gut microbiome.

Neuroscience & Memory

TransYouth Project: Building bridges of acceptance

Kristina Olson, BA ’03, has won a Waterman Award, the U.S. government’s highest honor for scientists 40 and younger, and a MacArthur “genius grant” for her research on transgender youth.

Psychologist Kristina Olson, BA ’03, wins one of science’s most prestigious awards for her research on identity.

Law

Helping the unseen

Bruce Goldstein, JD ’80, is president and executive director of Farmworker Justice, which fights for better working conditions and wages for the 2.4 million farm workers in the U.S.

Public Health

Promoting women’s rights in Uganda

Alice Emasu Seruyange (right), MSW ’10, has built the first hospital in Uganda specializing in treating obstetric fistulas. Here she is with a fistula survivor.

Science & Technology

An online vanguard

Jason Kint, BSBA ’96, is CEO of Digital Content Next, a nonprofit trade organization for digital media companies. He got his start in digital media working on the homepage of the WashU website.

Public Health

Violence and racism shape views of environmental issues

People living in marginalized communities in St. Louis, particularly African Americans, have been enduring, as one study participant said “real problems,” such as violence and racism, that are perceived as more immediate than issues of climate change, finds a study from the Brown School.

Organizational Behavior

First Person: What it’s like to be a lie spotter

Pamela Meyer, BA ’80, is founder and CEO of Calibrate, a corporate training company that specializes in deception detection. She is author of the 2010 book Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception, and her 2011 Ted Talk, “How to Spot a Liar,” has more than 22 million views. Here she talks about deciphering deception.

Campus & Community

Elevating the arts

Alumna Vicki Match Suna serves as senior vice president and vice dean for real estate development and facilities for NYU Langone Health, where she led the planning and implementation of the medical center’s 12-year campus transformation project. She brought such expertise to her advisory role on the east end transformation project, where she served on a committee that helped select an architectural firm and advised the design of Anabeth and John Weil Hall. (Courtesy photo)

Recently appointed to the university’s board of trustees, alumna Vicki Match Suna serves the university in numerous ways. She has particularly enjoyed being involved in the university’s recent capital project to transform the east end of the Danforth Campus.

Students

TEDx WashU Max Klapow

Max Klapow is a William H. Danforth Scholar and research assistant in the Diversity Sciences Lab. The Class of 2021 Arts & Sciences student presented at TEDxWUSTL about radical empathy in April 2019.

Campus & Community

A trusted adviser

Chancellor Martin’s former students describe a mentor who was focused and insightful, as well as warm and thoughtful.