The Record

Bright Ideas launched; seeks input to improve WashU

Bright Ideas, a new initiative, seeks to tap into WashU’s people power to obtain input from the community on ways to streamline, shift and adapt to benefit the university in lasting, sustainable ways.

Pappu, collaborators awarded $7.5 million grant

Rohit Pappu at the McKelvey School of Engineering is part of a multi-institutional team awarded a highly competitive $7.5 million Department of Defense grant to study and engineer membraneless organelles.

Uncovering genetic roots of marijuana use disorder

An international team of researchers led by scientists at the School of Medicine has identified two regions in our DNA — one newly identified and a second that replicates a past finding — that appear to contribute to one’s risk of becoming dependent on marijuana.