Loyalty programs boost businesses’ ability to keep customers
In business, simple loyalty programs can strongly increase customer retention, Washington University in St. Louis researchers have found. And when the U.S. economy edges closer to normal following the...
View ArticleResearchers find organic carbons are also absorbing light — and likely...
Research from the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has revealed that, despite its whitish appearance, organic carbon particles from cookstoves, like the one...
View ArticleMilk pioneers: East African herders consumed milk 5,000 years ago
When you pour a bowl of cereal, you probably aren’t considering how humans came to enjoy milk in the first place. But animal milk was essential to east African herders at least 5,000 years ago,...
View ArticleJuniors Eisner, Klapow awarded prestigious Truman Scholarship
Chancellor Andrew D. Martin (lower image) surprises Truman Scholars Max Klapow (left) and Zach Eisner. (Video: Tom Malkowicz/Washington University) Roommates and best friends Zach Eisner and Max...
View ArticleWashU Expert: Lessons learned from COVID-19 will improve supply chains
Because of the worldwide havoc caused by coronavirus, supply chains have become a crucial new focus of the global economy. Along with health care providers, workers in logistics and transportation have...
View ArticleConferences canceled, musicologists turn to Zoom
Paula Harper, a postdoctoral fellow in musicology, launched the online colloquium “Music Scholarship at a Distance” from her St. Louis apartment. Pictured on Harper’s screen is a snapshot from the...
View ArticleResearch in most university labs moved from bench to internet
When Washington University Vice Chancellor for Research Jennifer K. Lodge first sounded the alarm about the disruptive impact COVID-19 likely would have on labs across the university, the research...
View ArticleIn-person summer programming suspended until at least Aug. 1
In yet another major change with the key focus on protecting the health and well-being of the Washington University community and the St. Louis region in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the university...
View ArticleChancellor appoints committee to reimagine Class of 2020 recognition
Since March 16, when Washington University Chancellor Andrew D. Martin sorrowfully announced via a video message to the Class of 2020 the cancellation of the May 15 Commencement ceremony due to the...
View ArticleFederal funding for rapid COVID-19 test goes to McKelvey Engineering researchers
Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis have received federal funding for a rapid COVID-19 test using a newly developed technology. Srikanth Singamaneni,...
View ArticleLizards develop new ‘love language’
Relocated in small groups to experimental islands, lizards rapidly and repeatedly developed new chemical signals for communicating with each other. Free from the risk of predators and intent to attract...
View ArticleSustainability doesn’t stop
At Washington University in St. Louis, the commitment to being a leader in sustainability on campus, throughout the community and around the world runs deep. On this, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day...
View ArticleTransitions ahead at the Africa initiative
Akande Benjamin Akande, assistant vice chancellor for international affairs-Africa and associate director of the Global Health Center at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named president of...
View ArticleMaker Task Force works to protect front-line health-care workers
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, a diverse team of makers from across Washington University in St. Louis’ Danforth and Medical campuses, Barnes-Jewish Hospital and BJC HealthCare have come...
View ArticleAerosol researchers at McKelvey School of Engineering tackle novel coronavirus
Researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis are at the forefront of aerosol science. With ongoing research from as high as 250 miles above earth at the...
View ArticleDiabetes reversed in mice with genetically edited stem cells derived from...
Using induced pluripotent stem cells produced from the skin of a patient with a rare, genetic form of insulin-dependent diabetes called Wolfram syndrome, researchers transformed the human stem cells...
View ArticleWashU performers find solace and salience in song
Here, the cast and crew of “Twins: The Musical”; the singers of the Sensasians a cappella group; and the alumni members of Mosaic Whispers, the oldest all-gender a cappella group at Washington...
View ArticleMathematical model predicts COVID-19 hospitalizations for those with...
Washington University in St. Louis mathematician Steven G. Krantz has turned his focus to modeling COVID-19 in hopes that better predictions can help lessen transmission and save lives. Krantz Krantz...
View ArticleUniversity offers housing for front-line health workers, first responders
It all started with a call from the head of BJC HealthCare to Chancellor Andrew D. Martin. Doctors and nurses needed somewhere to stay amid intense work caring for the sick. Could Washington University...
View ArticleMarshall elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Marshall Washington University in St. Louis anthropologist Fiona Marshall joins the likes of songwriter and activist Joan Baez and former Attorney General Eric Holder as a newly elected member of the...
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