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Longest Table’s record turnout reflects appetite for civic dialogue

Roughly 550 WashU undergraduate and graduate students gathered in Tisch Park Sept. 3 for the annual civic dialogue event — a nearly fourfold increase since its debut in 2023.

Media advisory: ‘Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection’ Sept. 12

The Kemper Art Museum will celebrate the opening of “Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection” Sept. 12.

Advancement

Guan named Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker Professor of Engineering

Jianjun Guan, an expert in biomaterials and tissue engineering, has been named the Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.

Alzheimer's

Yoo, Sun recognized for developing novel method to study aged neurons

Andrew S. Yoo, the Phil and Sima Needleman Distinguished Professor of Developmental Biology at WashU Medicine, and Zhao Sun, a staff scientist in Yoo’s laboratory, have received the Morby Prize from the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund in recognition of their groundbreaking paper that describes a novel method to study aged neurons.

Sustainability

AI to spark new recyclable plastics design

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have received a National Science Foundation grant to use artificial intelligence to design a new kind of plastics that can be easily broken down and recycled.

Academics

Ordered Liberty Project to promote civic education, expand viewpoint diversity

Chancellor Andrew D. Martin has announced a new Washington University in St. Louis initiative to further promote academic freedom, viewpoint diversity and civic education. The Ordered Liberty Project will recruit endowed faculty across disciplines and support existing programs to build an intellectual culture where rigorous debate strengthens both scholarship and student learning.

Neuroscience & Memory

Mouse study links chronic pain to disrupted sleep patterns

Moron-Concepcion (left), Musiek and Ibrahim

Researchers at WashU Medicine have developed the first mouse model to replicate the disrupted sleep patterns seen in people with chronic pain.

Biology

Pigeons of St. Louis: A new look at a cosmopolitan bird

Wildlife researchers at Washington University in St. Louis tracked pigeons in two cities to see what affects their density.

Students

Career Catalysts: Fellows program provides first-gen student skills and a stipend

Career Catalysts, a series about WashU interns, by WashU interns, visits junior Kiersten Anderson as she leads a therapy session with individuals with memory-related illnesses. Her internship at St. Louis nonprofit Memory Keepers is funded by the Chancellor’s Career Fellows Program, which supports low-income, first-generation students.

Medicine

Bioelectronic material may help to reveal new information behind infertility

Alexandra Rutz, a biomedical engineer at WashU, has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation to create 3D bioelectronic scaffolds for ovarian follicles, to be used for infertility and aging research.