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Washington People: Michelle Venturella

Softball player-turned-coach Michelle Venturella achieved Olympic gold in 2000. Today, she provides her athletes with encouragement to succeed on and off the field.

Early wins Tradition of Literary Excellence Award

Gerald Early, the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will receive the 2018 Tradition of Literary Excellence Award Oct. 27.

Campus & Community

Potts named associate vice chancellor for finance and controller

Barbara L. Potts, newly-appointed as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Finance and Controller at Washington University in St. Louis, poses for a photograph on the WUSTL North Campus in St. Louis Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018. Photo by Sid Hastings

Barbara L. Potts has been named associate vice chancellor for finance and controller at Washington University in St. Louis, announced Amy B. Kweskin, vice chancellor for finance and chief financial officer. Her appointment was effective Oct. 2.

Postdoc researcher Zhang receives STAT honor

Rong Zhang, a postdoctoral researcher at Washington University School of Medicine who studies how viruses cause disease, has been named a 2018 Wunderkind by the national biomedical publication STAT News. The award honors young scientists and doctors who are blazing new trails in research and public health.

Science & Technology

Electricity in Martian dust storms helps to form perchlorates

Storms help form an important chemical that is highly significant in the search for life on Mars. A team led by Alian Wang of Arts & Sciences created a simulation in the lab that sheds new light on what’s being kicked up by those massive Martian dust devils.

Physical Sciences

Heavy metals control the ‘breath’ of wetlands

At the river’s edge, where water and soil meet, microbes churn out methane and other greenhouse gasses. Jeffrey G. Catalano, of Arts & Sciences, wades into local Missouri wetlands to determine the role of heavy metals in this process.

Humanities & Society

Refugee girls gain from effort to teach life skills, study finds

A yearlong program for adolescent girl refugees in Sub-Saharan Africa successfully promoted healthy transitions to adulthood within the evaluation period, according to the results of randomized controlled trials in Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The study was led by Lindsay Stark, associate professor at the Brown School.

Humanities & Society

Urban and rural rates of childhood cancer survival the same, study finds

doctor with chalkboard reading "cancer prevention"

Childhood and adolescent cancer survival in the United States does not vary by rural/urban residence at the time of diagnosis, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

Campus & Community

The View From Here 10.22.18

Images from in and around the Washington University campuses.

Campus & Community

Inside the 7th McDonnell Academy International Symposium

Addressing global challenges in a spirit of cooperation and collaboration was the prevailing theme of the 7th McDonnell Academy International Symposium, co-hosted by Washington University in St. Louis and Tsinghua University, and held in Beijing Oct. 11-14.