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Plants model more efficient thermal cooling method
When drops of water touch the surface of a lotus flower leaf, they form beads and roll off, collecting dust particles along the way. In contrast, water droplets on a rose petal also form beads, but...
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Switching tracks
Think of a train coming down the tracks to a switch point where it could go either to the right or the left — and it always goes to the right. Photosynthetic organisms have a similar switch point....
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Border walls obstruct legal trade by one-third, ‘divert’ illegal trade
Border walls remain a politically charged topic in the United States and elsewhere around the world. Yet they are far more than an immigration or security issue, finds a new study co-authored by a...
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Toward a smarter way of recharging the aquifer
To replenish groundwater, many municipalities inject reclaimed water into depleted aquifers. The injected water has been purified by secondary wastewater treatment, and, in some cases, the water has...
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New book lays out social work’s agenda for 21st century
Including the insights of more than 35 leading social work scholars from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis and beyond, a new book grapples with 13 key areas in the profession in an...
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Celebrating the newest National Academy of Inventors fellows
Washington University in St. Louis this year celebrates two new fellows of the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors. The distinction...
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Research finds slave trade’s effect on firm ownership persists today
The effects of the African slave trade persist today among businesses in parts of the continent, with companies more often tightly controlled by individuals or families — often because they have...
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SuperTIGER on its second prowl — 130,000 feet above Antarctica
The Super Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder (SuperTIGER) instrument is used to study the origin of cosmic rays. (Photo: Wolfgang Zober) A balloon-borne scientific instrument designed to study the...
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Improvements to off-campus safety, security going into effect
A number of updates to safety and security programs at Washington University in St. Louis will go into effect during the spring semester, which begins today (Jan. 13). The improvements are based on...
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Black workers’ status in a company informs perceptions of workplace racial...
Based on 60 in-depth interviews with black medical doctors, nurses and technicians in the health care industry, a new study from Washington University in St. Louis finds that wherever black workers...
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Tuning optical resonators gives researchers control over transparency
In the quantum realm, under some circumstances and with the right interference patterns, light can pass through opaque media. This feature of light is more than a mathematical trick; optical quantum...
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Investigational drugs block bone loss in mice receiving chemotherapy
Bone loss that can lead to osteoporosis and fractures is a major problem for cancer patients who receive chemotherapy and radiation. Since the hormone estrogen plays an important role in maintaining...
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Parking & Transportation Services shares news, changes for spring semester
As the spring semester kicked off, Parking & Transportation Services at Washington University in St. Louis announced changes in the east end garage, WashU Rides and a revamped campus shuttle...
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Wendland appointed Washington University provost
Wendland Beverly Wendland, the James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, has been appointed provost of Washington University in St. Louis, effective...
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Law and policy spring lecture series begins Jan. 17
The spring session of the Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series kicks off at 3 p.m. Friday, Jan. 17, with a chat with constitutional experts Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the School of Law at...
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Leaders use shortcut to assess who trusts them
As a leader, do you know if your employees trust you? Is your sense of their trust accurate? If you’re wrong, will that affect your success? Most business leaders hope their employees trust them, and...
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Mutations in donors’ stem cells may cause problems for cancer patients
A stem cell transplant — also called a bone marrow transplant — is a common treatment for blood cancers, such as acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Such treatment can cure blood cancers but also can lead to...
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University to honor King’s dream Monday
Chancellor Andrew D. Martin will deliver the keynote address at Washington University in St. Louis’ Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 20, in Graham Chapel. Martin “The event...
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Leahy named associate vice chancellor for finance and controller
Leahy Angie L. Leahy, assistant director of tax at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named associate vice chancellor for finance and controller, announced Amy B. Kweskin, vice chancellor for...
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$29 million for new phase of international Alzheimer’s study
For more than a decade, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has led an international effort to better understand Alzheimer’s disease by studying people with rare genetic mutations...
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