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Is autonomous practice safe for patients?
The Oklahoma Legislature on May 29 overturned Gov. Kevin Stitt’s veto of HB 2298, a bill designed to provide full practice autonomy to nurse practitioners who have completed 6,240 hours of supervised...
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US cuts threaten global efforts to prevent violence against women, children
Amid growing concern over U.S. public health funding cuts, experts at Washington University in St. Louis warn that pulling support from key data systems could erase decades of progress in protecting...
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Uncovering how cells allocate space to make way for new growth
Picture a living cell as if it were a city. If you were the urban planner for this (very little, very alive) city, one of the things you would have to decide is how to allocate space for different...
View ArticleIsabelle receives Gloria White Award
The Rev. Callista Isabelle, inaugural director for religious, spiritual and ethical life at WashU, received this year’s Gloria W. White Distinguished Service Award. The universitywide award is given...
View ArticleBoard grants faculty appointments, tenure
At the Washington University in St. Louis Board of Trustees meeting May 2, numerous faculty members were appointed, promoted or granted tenure, with tenure effective July 1 unless otherwise indicated....
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Phillips-Cremins named BJC investigator
Jennifer Phillips-Cremins has been named a BJC Investigator in the departments of Genetics and of Neuroscience at WashU Medicine. (Photo: Matt Miller/WashU Medicine) Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins, PhD,...
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Wendland to complete role as provost
Wendland Beverly R. Wendland, provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at Washington University in St. Louis, will complete her provost appointment after successfully completing a...
View ArticleNew hydrogel treatments turn water waste into fertilizer
Excessive nutrients in wastewater can lead to detrimental discharges into natural water bodies, prompting harmful algal blooms with severe environmental and economic repercussions. To address this...
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Why the moon shimmers with shiny glass beads
The Apollo astronauts didn’t know what they’d find when they explored the surface of the moon, but they certainly didn’t expect to see drifts of tiny, bright orange glass beads glistening among the...
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Cosmic ‘lenses’ will better define dark matter
A funky effect Einstein predicted, known as gravitational lensing — when a foreground galaxy magnifies more distant galaxies behind it — will soon become common when NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space...
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