The next war we have to win

While the battle against SARS-CoV-2 rages on, Washington University researchers and clinicians are fighting a rearguard action against drug-resistant infections that years of overprescribing have turned deadly.

Neon ice shows promise as new qubit platform

Kater Murch, professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, helped an Argonne Laboratory team with their effort to create a new form of qubit, reported in a recent Nature paper. This system shows great promise to be developed into ideal building blocks for future quantum computers.

Board of Trustees elects new chair, members

The university’s Board of Trustees elected a new chair, Andrew Bursky, along with several new members at its meeting May 6, announced Chancellor Andrew D. Martin.

Research Wire

Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, professor at the School of Medicine, received a five-year $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research titled “Neuronal mechanisms of good-based economic decisions.”

Notables

Corinna Treitel, chair and professor of history in Arts & Sciences, will co-direct an exploratory seminar at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute in June 2022. Treitel will help guide leading scholars on a discussion about “rethinking health and the humanities during and after COVID-19.”

Notables

Two students from the McKelvey School of Engineering, Weiyi Pan (left) and Zixuan Wang, were honored at a joint conference of the American Water Works Association and the Missouri Water Environment Association.