When very young children talk about wanting to commit suicide, conventional wisdom is that they don’t understand what they’re saying. But School of Medicine research has found that depressed children ages 4 to 6 who think and talk about committing suicide understand what it means to die better than other kids of the same age. They also are more likely to think of death as something caused by violence.
Regis J. O’Keefe, MD, PhD, the Fred C. Reynolds Professor and head of Orthopaedic Surgery at the School of Medicine, received the Alfred R. Shands Jr., MD, Award.
As Walmart plans to eliminate its greeter position in some 1,000 stores by late April, store managers need to work diligently to find other jobs for greeters, many of whom have physical disabilities, says a public health expert at Washington University in St. Louis.
Should we be burying coal ash in the flood plain? No. Ameren and the Missouri DNR should be supporting clean closure — the removal of coal ash for recycling or safe disposal in secure landfills that do not threaten water supplies.
An image of the maze-like structures of the mouse olfactory system recently was named a winner of the 2018 BioArt competition. Graduate student Lu M. Yang created the image.
Before customers jump on the bandwagon of online crowd information and buy a dinner, a book, or a movie ticket, suppose there were a way to make the bandwagon better? That’s the central question behind “Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowds,” a research paper co-authored by Washington University in St. Louis’ Xing Huang and published in the journal Management Science.
The latest edition of WashU Spaces visits the Wigdor Cycling Studio, aka the Dark Room, at Sumers Recreation Center, where indoor cycling instructors use big data and heavy beats to motivate riders.
Nominations are being accepted for the Gloria W. White Distinguished Service Award. The award recognizes a staff member for exceptional effort and contributions to the university. Nominations are due by March 15.
Washington University in St. Louis will once again participate in a comprehensive survey about sexual assault on college campuses, to be conducted by the Association of American Universities (AAU) this spring.
