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The Gratitude Project debuts
COVID-19 is the worst. Tim Bono, campus happiness expert, won’t pretend otherwise. But if we are to protect our mental, as well as our physical, health, it’s vital to celebrate small kindnesses,...
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Institute for School Partnership finds new ways to be ‘in St. Louis, for St....
The Institute for School Partnership (ISP) at Washington University in St. Louis is developing a new strategic plan to support the university’s mission to be “In St. Louis, for St. Louis.” To that...
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Fine-tuning device performance with swarms of swimming cells
Scientists use acoustic microfluidic devices to separate and sort components in fluids, such as red and white blood cells, platelets and tumor cells in blood, to better understand diseases or to...
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Trust your gut: A healthy sense of disgust can prevent sickness
The next time your stomach turns at the smell of spoiled food or the sight of feces, pay attention. New research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Feb. 15, suggests...
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New strategy blocks chronic lung disease in mice
Inflammatory lung diseases such as asthma, COPD and, most recently, COVID-19, have proven difficult to treat. Current therapies reduce symptoms and do little to stop such diseases from continuing to...
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New ‘Musical Lunch Box’ event Feb. 26
It has been a historically difficult year for the arts, and especially for live performers. Students and faculty in the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis...
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Public Safety Committee concludes work, releases report
A newly released report provides insight into public safety at Washington University in St. Louis, with a focus on exploring how the university can best support safety on and near the Danforth Campus...
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Search begins for dean to lead reimagined University College
University College students visit on the Danforth Campus. (Photo: James Byard/Washington University) Washington University in St. Louis has launched a national search for a new dean to lead...
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Under climate stress, human innovation set stage for population surge
Climate alone is not a driver for human behavior. The choices that people make in the face of changing conditions take place in a larger human context. And studies that combine insights from...
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Africa Initiative awards new round of pilot grants
While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to curtail nonessential travel, it hasn’t tamped down interest in interdisciplinary partnerships involving Washington University in St. Louis faculty and their...
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WashU Spaces: mySci warehouse
Not far from the crates of kazoos, stacks of Slinkies and boxes of nylon knee highs, Chris Sella, Institute for School Partnership warehouse manager, finds the owl pellets — regurgitated clumps of...
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When using pyrite to understand Earth’s ocean and atmosphere: Think local,...
The ocean floor is vast and varied, making up more than 70% of the Earth’s surface. Scientists have long used information from sediments at the bottom of the ocean — layers of rock and microbial muck...
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Electrical signaling in cells focus of $8.8 million grant
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received an eight-year $8.8 million grant to study cells’ ion channels as potential targets for new drugs to treat disorders...
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School closures ‘sideline’ working mothers
Decades of feminist gains in the workforce have been undermined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has upended public education across the United States, a critical infrastructure of care that parents —...
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‘The Dilemma of the Black Republican’
Jackie Robinson’s baseball career is synonymous with civil rights advancement. But his life also illuminates a period of dramatic electoral realignment. “Jackie Robinson was a Republican,” writes...
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Brown School working with St. Louis city on virus containment
New research from faculty in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis is providing guidance to local policymakers on how they might contain the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19...
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Sam Fox School, CRE2, Pulitzer Arts Foundation welcome artist-in-residence...
Foliage erupts from a deconstructed police cruiser. An urban farm in north Minneapolis reflects basketball geometry. A functioning greenhouse — located in the heart of north Omaha, Neb. — marks the...
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COVID-19 can kill heart muscle cells, interfere with contraction
Since early in the pandemic, COVID-19 has been associated with heart problems, including reduced ability to pump blood and abnormal heart rhythms. But it’s been an open question whether these problems...
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Opioid overdose reduced in patients taking buprenorphine
Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, opioid misuse has continued unabated in the United States, with an estimated 2.5 million or more Americans suffering from opioid use disorder. Most people treated...
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New evidence COVID-19 antibodies, vaccines less effective against variants
New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates that three new, fast-spreading variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 can evade antibodies that work against the...
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