The Record

University offers housing for front-line workers

Washington University has stepped up to help health-care workers and first responders who need somewhere to stay while working to care for the sick during the COVID-19 pandemic. The university is providing rooms and meals at the Knight Center and the Lofts apartments.

COVID-19 survivors needed to donate blood plasma

COVID-19 survivors are needed to donate blood plasma. Infectious diseases physicians at the School of Medicine have developed an expanded access program to give blood plasma from COVID-19 survivors to critically ill patients.

Marshall elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Anthropologist Fiona Marshall of Arts & Sciences joins the likes of songwriter and activist Joan Baez and former Attorney General Eric Holder as a newly elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced last week.

Performers find solace and salience in song

Listen to the cast and crew of “Twins: The Musical”; the singers of the Sensasians a cappella group; and the alumni members of Mosaic Whispers, the university’s oldest all-gender a cappella group, perform songs both beautiful and heartbreaking.

Soot may not be only worry with cookstoves

Researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering spent two weeks in India cooking with local residents. They found that soot wasn’t the only worrisome byproduct of traditional cookstoves; organic carbons are causing problems, too.