Providing driver’s licenses improves birth outcomes

A new study by Margot Moinester in Arts & Sciences is among the first to find positive health benefits associated with inclusive immigration policies — a sharp contrast to the harmful effects of restrictive policies.

Ju named Morriss Professor

Neurologist Yo-El Ju, MD (center), whose discoveries have illuminated the complex relationship between sleep and neurodegenerative disease, has been named an inaugural Barbara Burton and Reuben M. Morriss III Professor at the School of Medicine.

Math for a changing world

Ari Stern, an associate professor of mathematics in Arts & Sciences, is developing new ways to simulate complex dynamical systems, work relevant to the activity of neurons as well as the future of galaxies.

Research Wire

Research from Arts & Sciences shows that orchids probably originated in Eurasia. Biologist Susanne Renner is a senior author of the study in New Phytologist. Orchids, with almost 30,000 species, are one of the most diverse groups of the world’s flowering plants.

Research Wire

Two early-career WashU faculty members have been awarded a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship: psychologist Zachariah Reagh, in Arts & Sciences, and neuroscientist Gaia Tavoni, at the School of Medicine.

Justin B. Serugo, research technician, 44

Justin B. Serugo, a senior research technician in the Department of Pathology & Immunology at the School of Medicine, died Feb. 6 in St. Louis following a battle with liver cancer. He was 44. A funeral service will be held Saturday, March 2.