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New imaging technique to use bioinspired camera to study tendon, ligament damage

Tommy John surgery, or reconstruction of the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) in the elbow, has been dubbed an epidemic among Major League Baseball pitchers. A mechanical engineer at Washington University in St. Louis plans to develop a bioinspired imaging technique to study how damage accumulates in the UCL during loading, or the stress of activating the ligament. This could provide insight into what is progressively happening to these soft tissues when pitchers throw fastballs dozens of times during a game.

Science & Technology

Building a better microscope

Like our eyes, microscopes are limited in what they can see because of their resolution, or their ability to see detail. An engineer at Washington University in St. Louis plan to use funding from the National Science Center to build a more precise microscope.

White Americans disliked undocumented immigrants long before Trump

Are these calls for shared humanity likely to be heard — and shared — by white America? My own and other research suggest that the answer is no.

Bacteria may be powerful weapon against antibiotic resistance

My colleagues and I in the lab of Gautam Dantas have not only discovered how bacteria are able to eat the drugs that are supposed to kill them, but how this can be useful to people as well.

Science & Technology

Courage in the face of climate change

Thirty years ago this month, the term global warming became part of our popular conversation. Doctoral candidate Andrea Godshalk from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts reflects on the recent Saint Louis Climate Summit and the challenge of re-imagining key infrastructure, systems and values.

Campus & Community

Gov. Parson meets with Washington University leaders

Washington University in St. Louis leaders met with Missouri’s newly installed governor, Mike Parson, during his June 20 visit to the Medical Campus.

Campus & Community

Board of Trustees grants faculty appointments, promotions

At the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees meeting May 4, the following faculty were appointed with tenure or promoted with tenure, effective July 1 unless otherwise noted.

Physical Sciences

Bedrock in West Antarctica rising at surprisingly rapid rate

The findings, reported in the journal Science, contain positive implications for the survival of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which scientists had previously thought could be doomed because of the effects of climate change, according to study co-author Douglas Wiens of Arts & Sciences.

Humanities & Society

Prosecuting migrant families still ‘cruel and unnecessary’

President Donald Trump on June 20 directed his administration to detain migrant families together instead of separating parents from their children, but one of the nation’s leading immigration experts argues that jailing migrant families is still “cruel and unnecessary” under U.S. law.

Bartlett honored by Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Nancy L. Bartlett, MD, the Koman Chair in Medical Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named a 2018 Legacy Leadership Award honoree by the Gateway Chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.