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Jan 7, 2025 | 
phys.org | Leah Shaffer
The fresh slate of the new year offers an opportunity to re-think goals and set new habits. But to ensure success with those goals, people need to think carefully about timing and what they really want, according to Tim Bono, a lecturer in psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
source.washu.edu | Leah Shaffer
Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia are devastating disorders that emerge following the buildup of misfolded proteins in the brain. The newest generation of Alzheimer’s therapeutics targets accumulations of the protein amyloid beta with engineered antibodies, but the results have been underwhelming, with some adverse effects, not to mention using engineered antibodies can be prohibitively expensive.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
source.washu.edu | Chris Woolston |Leah Shaffer
Life is a series of small events: making morning coffee, letting the dog out, opening a laptop, letting the dog back in. Add them all up and you have a full day. Our brains are committed to observing and processing the events that make up our daily lives, said Jeff Zacks, the Edgar James Swift Professor in Arts & Sciences and chair of the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
source.washu.edu | Beth Miller |Leah Shaffer
Gang Wu, a professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has been awarded the Energy Technology Division Research Award from the Electrochemical Society (ECS).
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
phys.org | Leah Shaffer
At a time when political polarization is becoming an increasing problem on social media, WashU data scientist Jean Springsteen is working on a way to bring down the temperature and still get buy-in from social media companies.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
source.washu.edu | Beth Miller |Leah Shaffer
After an injury to the elbow, such as a fracture or dislocation, the joint may stiffen and be difficult to move, making everyday tasks such as eating, bathing or getting dressed challenging and painful. Treatment usually includes physical therapy and pain medication, but specific approaches that can best reduce the impact of the injury haven’t been improved because little is understood about the mechanisms driving the motion loss.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
source.washu.edu | Leah Shaffer |Mark Reynolds
Two faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis, Benjamin Garcia and Rohit V. Pappu, have received annual awards from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Garcia, the Raymond H. Wittcoff Distinguished Professor and head of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at WashU Medicine, will receive the 2025 Ruth Kirschstein Diversity in Science Award.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
eurekalert.org | Leah Shaffer
By Leah ShafferResearchers at Wash U have spent the better part of the decade studying the ins and outs of how locusts smell, including how odors affect the insect’s behavior. In research recently published in eLife, Barani Raman, a professor of biomedical engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering, starts to map out just how olfactory circuits are altered in driving different behavior in locusts.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
source.wustl.edu | Leah Shaffer
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have spent the better part of the decade studying the ins and outs of how locusts smell, including how odors affect the insect’s behavior. In research recently published in eLife, Barani Raman, a professor of biomedical engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering, starts to map out just how olfactory circuits are altered in driving different behavior in locusts.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
source.wustl.edu | Leah Shaffer |Leslie Gibson McCarthy
Communities around the world are increasingly using a process called reverse osmosis (RO) to produce drinkable water. It’s estimated that more than a billion people could be consuming RO water by 2050. But much of value is lost in that process, a fact that drives the research of Young-Shin Jun, professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering. From Jun’s perspective, wastewater in the environment is not just H2O molecules.
