THIS IS home.php

Arts & Culture

Art, poetry and ‘Momentum’

Learn about how poet Paul Tran and more than a dozen artists, illustrators and designers are preparing for the inauguration of Andrew D. Martin as 15th chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis.

Arvidson receives grants to support 5th and 8th reconnaissance missions on Mars

Ray Arvidson, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences, received $273,894 from Johns Hopkins University/NASA to support the fifth extended mission of the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM). Separately, Arvidson received $135,00 from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA to support his role as interdisciplinary scientist for the Mars Odyssey eighth extended mission.
Engineering

Shape affects performance of micropillars in heat transfer

A Washington University in St. Louis researcher has shown for the first time that the shape of a nanostructure has an effect on its ability to retain water. This has important ramifications for heat transfer, which is important when it comes to performance in small electronics.

Composting launches in the DUC

Dining Services has launched composting services for diners at the Danforth University Center this semester. A spot for composting food, napkins and to-go boxes is now next to the containers collecting waste destined for the landfill and for recycling in the DUC.

Zhou receives NIH grant to develop methods of determining drugs’ effect on tumors’ growth

Chao Zhou, associate professor of biomedical engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering, plans to use optical coherence tomography, a type of imaging technology that has been used for two decades to take images of the retina. With a three-year, $855,305 grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of […]
Medicine & Health

NIH funds centers to improve, diversify reference human genome

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will provide $29.5 million to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and collaborating institutions to improve the accuracy and diversity of the reference human genome sequence. The aim is to better reflect the spectrum of human diversity and make the reference genome a more useful research tool.
Campus & Community

‘Momentum’ exhibit opens at Olin Library

The new exhibit “Momentum: Bridging Past, Present, and Future,” showcases the faculty, staff and students who served St. Louis, led the way for educational access and equality and were committed to academic excellence. The exhibit is on view from Saturday, Sept. 28, until Dec. 15 and is located in John M. Olin Library’s Kagan Grand Staircase lobby.
Marketing

Workplace theft is contagious (and strategic)

Three Olin Business School researchers completed a study of workplace theft among restaurant workers that details, for the first time, how such stealing is contagious — and new restaurant workers are particularly susceptible.