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Parvulescu wins prestigious fellowship

Anca Parvulescu, professor of English in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been awarded a Collaborative Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for the 2018-19 academic year.

Sepper awarded Program in Law and Public Affairs fellowship at Princeton

Elizabeth Sepper, professor of law, has been awarded a Program in Law and Public Affairs fellowship at Princeton University for the 2018-19 academic year. Sepper is one of five people to receive the prestigious fellowship.

Medicine & Health

Eczema drug effective against severe asthma

Two new studies of patients with difficult-to-control asthma show that the eczema drug dupilumab alleviates asthma symptoms and improves patients’ ability to breathe better than standard therapies. Researchers at the School of Medicine and colleagues elsewhere conducted the studies.

Medicine & Health

Clues found to early lung transplant failure

Researchers at the School of Medicine and colleagues at Northwestern University and elsewhere have uncovered new clues in early lung transplant failure.

Record moves to summer schedule

The May 21 issue marks the last Record of the 2017-18 academic year. The next issue will be published Wednesday, May 30, and generally twice weekly through the summer. Visit The Source for the latest news between issues.

Campus & Community

The View From Here 5.21.18

Images from in and around the Washington University campuses.

Graduate student speaker Donald Gerke’s address to the Class of 2018

Read the text of graduate student speaker Donald Gerke’s prepared remarks to the Class of 2018. Gerke received a doctorate from the Brown School.

Campus & Community

Slaughter calls for an American renewal

In a stirring speech to the Class of 2018, Anne-Marie Slaughter urged the graduates to be part of a great “American Renewal.”

Anne-Marie Slaughter’s 2018 Commencement address at Washington University in St. Louis

Anne-Marie Slaughter, a renowned foreign policy expert, scholar and former top State Department official, delivered the address at Washington University in St. Louis’ 157th Commencement ceremony. Read her remarks about American renewal delivered to the Class of 2018 on Friday, May 18, in Brookings Quadrangle on the Danforth Campus.

Medicine & Health

Revealing the mysteries of early development

Zebrafish embryos are transparent and develop outside the mother’s body, giving scientists a detailed view of early development. A research team led by Lila Solnica-Krezel, of the School of Medicine, is revealing new clues to how birth defects develop.