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What cold lizards in Miami can tell us about climate change resilience
It was raining iguanas on a sunny morning. Biologist James Stroud’s phone started buzzing early on Jan. 22. A friend who was bicycling to work past the white sands and palm tree edges of Key Biscayne,...
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Boeing Center, Olin faculty behind special edition journal, recent research
Forty of the world’s leading supply chain scholars were invited to the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, back before a virus’ early days gave rise to shortages of cleaners,...
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Former Congressman Gephardt part of panel on election integrity
Former Congressman Richard Gephardt does not know who will win the 2020 presidential election. Nor does he know when the race will be called. But Gephardt does believe the election will be safe, secure...
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Pappu, collaborators awarded $7.5 million MURI award
Rohit Pappu, the Edwin H. Murty Professor of Engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, is part of multi-institution team to receive a highly competitive...
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Uncovering genetic roots of marijuana use disorder
A large study exploring possible genetic influences on cannabis use disorder has identified two regions in our DNA — one newly identified and a second that replicates a past finding — that appear to...
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‘Your voices are exactly the voices the world needs right now’
Generation Z, people currently 18 to 23 years old, make up 10% of eligible voters in 2020. This influx of young and first-time voters has the potential to shape the outcome of the race — if they come...
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Alzheimer’s in adults with Down syndrome focus of multicenter NIH grant
Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are taking part in a multisite study to investigate the biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease in people with Down syndrome. By middle...
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Bright Ideas, bright future
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington University in St. Louis has relied on its own people power and experts to help guide the community through one of the most difficult times imaginable. The...
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2020 election talk: Voter confidence in U.S. presidential results
This political science roundtable discussion is the second in a two-part series aimed at helping listeners to better understand the news, polls and issues in this year’s election. Listen to the first...
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Fail Better: Celia McKee
(Video: Tom Malkowicz/Washington University) “My grant got rejected. I failed. So I’m saying it on Twitter. I don’t want sympathy. I just wish people would say stuff like this on Twitter.” Celia...
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Stepping up, leaning in
Andrew Whitaker has spent his undergraduate career at Washington University in St. Louis giving back. A biomedical engineering major at the McKelvey School of Engineering, he has danced and played with...
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Analyzing the syllabi gender gap
Female authors are underrepresented as sole and first authors and as members of authorship teams in readings for undergraduate college courses, finds a new analysis from the Brown School at Washington...
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Voter participation predicts compliance with social distancing
Americans who vote are more likely to practice social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic than people with a lower sense of civic duty — regardless of political affiliation, according to a new...
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Emergency Management receives full accreditation
Washington University in St. Louis’ Emergency Management Department has been awarded full accreditation by the Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP), making it just the eighth university in...
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Past vloggers share how COVID-19 has changed their lives
Our past vloggers from 2017, 2018 and 2019 hail from different corners of the globe, study in different schools and boast different interests and aspirations. But each one has been changed by the...
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Class of 2024 video blogs capture college in time of COVID-19
For the fourth year, the Source has asked a group of first-year students to track their first 40 days on campus, one second of video at a time. They captured walks on campus, Zoom classes and masks —...
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Majority of all voters say climate change is real; more Democrats consider it...
One of the issues at the center of the 2020 election is climate change. A recent survey by the Weidenbaum Center at Washington University in St. Louis found that a majority of voters — 95% of Democrats...
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Designing for social change
Penina Acayo Laker pauses in Weil Hall in front of the artwork “it comes and it goes” (2019), a mural by Sam Fox School alumna Anne Schaefer. (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University) Social change is...
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Researchers devise new method to get lead out of filters, better measure...
Commercially sold water filters do a good job of making sure any lead from residential water pipes does not make its way into water used for drinking or cooking. Filters do not do a good job, however,...
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Washington University begins recruiting participants for phase 3 COVID-19...
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is a testing site for the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson’s phase 3 clinical research study, called the ENSEMBLE trial,...
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