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St. Louis-area universities collaborate to bolster cybersecurity
In an unprecedented academic collaboration, a group of six St. Louis-area universities has formed the Gateway Higher Education Cybersecurity Consortium (GHECC) to bring together area institutional...
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Dance, experience and healing
Dancers perform Rachael Servello’s “Common Fate.” From left: Lauren Slaughter, Gigi Gilbert, Rachael Servello, Marcus Johnson, Kelsey Donovan, Mary Claremont. Not pictured: Justin Wright. (Photo: Jerry...
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Mobile phone technology to screen, help treat college students
A research team led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has received a five-year, $3.8 million grant to evaluate the use of smartphones in treating psychiatric problems that are...
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Washington University designated ‘Voter-Friendly Campus’
Washington University in St. Louis has been recognized, for the second time, as a “Voter-Friendly Campus” by the Campus Vote Project and NASPA – Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. The...
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Cooking for civil rights
Rafia Zafar, of Arts & Sciences, has a new book, “Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning,” and she will read from it March 21 at Subterranean Books. “Few chefs of African descent...
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Are there Zika reservoirs in the Americas?
Most emerging infectious diseases affecting people are zoonotic — they make the jump from other animals to humans. Transmission, however, is a two-way street. These zoonotic diseases can also jump from...
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African Film Festival to feature award-winning films
“Rafiki” tells the tender story of two teen girls who fall in love. The movie was banned in Kenya but embraced by audiences. The 14th annual African Film Festival invites St. Louisans to see eight...
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Performance-based pay linked to employee mental-health problems, study shows
Roughly seven of 10 companies in the United States, if not around the globe, use some form of pay-for-performance compensation system: bonuses, commissions, piece rates, profit sharing, individual and...
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Topical immunotherapy keeps skin cancer risk at bay
A combination of two topical creams already shown to clear precancerous skin lesions from sun-damaged skin also lowers the risk that patients will later develop squamous cell carcinoma of the skin. The...
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Women shaped cuisine, culture of ancient Cahokia
Archaeologists have struggled to explain the rapid rise and fall of Cahokia — the mysterious Mississippian mound-building culture that sprang up about a thousand years ago in the fertile southern...
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How team sports change a child’s brain
Adult depression has long been associated with shrinkage of the hippocampus, a brain region that plays an important role in memory and response to stress. Now, new research from Washington University...
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Student Gorham excels in the lab, on the track
After graduation, Washington University in St. Louis senior Lisa Gorham will continue her research on adolescent mental health at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). (Photo: Sid...
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Study shows how electricity-eating microbes use electrons to fix carbon dioxide
New research from Washington University in St. Louis explains the cellular processes that allow a sun-loving microbe to “eat” electricity — transferring electrons to fix carbon dioxide to fuel its...
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Sam Fox School to debut new facilities this fall
Renderings of Kemper Art Museum (center) and Weil Hall (right) on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. (Image: ©KieranTimberlake/studioAMD) This fall, one of the top programs for art,...
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Obese mouse mothers trigger heart problems in offspring
A diet high in fats and sugars is known for its unhealthy effects on the heart. Scientists now have found that a high-fat, high-sugar diet in mouse mothers before and during pregnancy causes problems...
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Woman’s Club renames scholarship in honor of Risa Zwerling Wrighton
The Woman’s Club of Washington University in St. Louis has renamed its endowed scholarship to honor the contributions of longtime member Risa Zwerling Wrighton. The club held a gala luncheon Jan. 25 at...
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Medications to treat opioid addiction are effective, though not widely used
With more than 2 million Americans suffering from an opioid use disorder and the escalating rate of deaths from opioid overdoses reaching about 130 per day, efforts to date have had little impact in...
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Home-based lifestyle intervention minimizes maternal weight gain
Weight gain during pregnancy and postpartum are important causes of long-term weight gain and the development of obesity-related diseases among women. A new, interdisciplinary study from Washington...
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More research planned on Child Development Accounts
The Brown School’s Center for Social Development is conducting a third wave of research on Child Development Accounts (CDAs) in Oklahoma. Wave 3 of the SEED for Oklahoma Kids (SEED OK) experiment...
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Probiotic bacteria evolve inside mice’s GI tracts
Probiotics – which are living bacteria taken to promote digestive health – evolve once inside the body and have the potential to become less effective and sometimes even harmful, according to a new...
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