WashU launches tuition-free program for refugees

WashU’s School of Continuing & Professional Studies is launching Empower: Career Success for Refugees, a 26-week free program to help refugees develop next-level language and professional skills to succeed in health care and other high-demand industries.

Research investigates Wall Street-backed rental market

Corporate investors “buy low and rent high” to populations who can least afford it. A two-year national study, led by Carol Camp Yeakey in Arts & Sciences, will examine the impact that corporate investors have on renters in St. Louis, Cincinnati and Atlanta. It builds off research published in January.

School of Medicine honors body donors, families

Memorial Grove at Tyson is a peaceful site dedicated to those who have donated their bodies to advance education at the School of Medicine. Leaders say such donors help teach future doctors compassionate medicine.

Student-run KWUR amplifies diverse music, student sounds

KWUR, the university’s student-run radio station, offers its 75 student DJs an opportunity to share their passions and its listeners a chance to discover something new. The station will host KWUR Week, its annual free concert series, March 25-29.

Notables

Aggie Toppins, an associate professor and chair of undergraduate design in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has won the 2023 Communication Design Educator Award in teaching from Design Incubation.

Research Wire

Two innovative pilot projects led by researchers at the School of Medicine have received funding from the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative to address critical challenges in the fields of neurodegeneration and neuroscience.

Research Wire

Researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering received a three-year $570,746 grant from the National Science Foundation to support their work to understand the fundamental mechanisms that underpin interactions between nerve cells, or neurons, and nanoparticles.