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Jill Biden, alumna Brittany Packnett headline ‘She Leads’ conference
Jill Biden, wife of former Vice President Joe Biden and a lifelong educator, will deliver the keynote address of “She Leads,” a new two-day event featuring female leaders in technology, finance, public...
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University partners for Grow Solar STL program
The demand for residential solar energy is growing in the St. Louis area. According to the Solar Energy Industries Association, enough solar has been installed in Missouri to power more than 26,000...
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What’s new with past first-year vloggers?
For Jazmin Garcia, it seems like only yesterday she was shooting a second of video every day for her first days on campus. “So much has happened since then, but I still remember the feeling of being a...
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Dear diary: New students keep video journals of first days on campus
For the third straight year, The Source has asked first-year students at Washington University in St. Louis to capture a second of video every day as they begin their college careers. Here, Connor...
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Parking team offers updates, reminders
Parking & Transportation Services at Washington University in St. Louis is reminding the campus community of the latest changes to Metro bus routes; parking during high-volume events such as...
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Making atmospheric chemistry modeling more accessible
Global modeling of the atmosphere’s chemistry requires immense computational resources to study how particles form and are processed. A team of researchers, led by Randall Martin at Washington...
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NIH gives major boost to microbiome research on Medical Campus
Tens of trillions of microbes, including bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi, live in and on the human body. Their microbial genomes, collectively known as the microbiome, contain at least 100 times...
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Words matter: Earnings call language can foreshadow credit risk
Using an analysis of thousands of words spoken by corporate executives, Washington University in St. Louis’ Jared Jennings and three other researchers have created a new way to help lenders make better...
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Drug reduces risk of pneumonia in newborn mice
The underdeveloped lungs and immune systems of premature babies put them at high risk of potentially deadly pneumonia. Now, a study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has found,...
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Climate scientist Konecky named Packard Fellow
Bronwen Konecky, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, whose research explores long-term changes in tropical climate and...
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Washington University gains valuable insight into ongoing challenges of...
Sexual assault and misconduct remain difficult problems on college campuses across the United States, according to a newly released survey of students from a sampling of the nation’s colleges and...
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$3.7 million supports crowdsourced database of cancer genomics
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received a $3.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support an open-source database aimed at boosting...
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Targeting immune cells may be potential therapy for Alzheimer’s
Messy tangles of a protein called tau can be found in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease and some other neurodegenerative diseases. In Alzheimer’s, the tangles coalesce just before tissue...
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$7.6 million funds center to fight cancer disparities in Missouri, Illinois
The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded $7.6 million to Washington University in St. Louis to create a research center that will develop ways to...
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New student cohort welcomed to campus
The McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis recently welcomed the first cohort of students funded by a prestigious new grant from the China Scholarship Council, the Chinese...
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Grant to help train researchers on mental health disparities in U.S., abroad
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have been awarded a grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to train...
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When WiFi is weak, send noise instead
When WiFi was designed, it was intended for high-speed data communications. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) set the standards for communications — that’s the 802.11...
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DOE funds new physics research in dark matter
The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded new funding to boost research on dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up an astounding 85% of the matter in the universe. Buckley One theory...
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‘She gets to be who she is’
Emma Flannery is Elle Woods, with Tuco in the role of Bruiser, in the PAD production of the musical “Legally Blonde.” (Photo: Jerry Naunheim Jr./Washington University) With her pink suits, chippy...
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10th annual Arbor Tour showcases east end trees
About four years ago, Kent Theiling, grounds and landscape design manager, started to select the 250 trees that are now part of the east end of Washington University in St. Louis. He would arrive at...
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