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Poster for #WashU #MayDay2026 event.

Poster for #WashU #MayDay2026 event.

Here is a portrait of Betha Whitlow, the driving force behind WashU’s Digital Art History Lab (DAHL).

Once a slide curator, she digitized vast collections and helped make her own role obsolete — paving the way for DAHL, which now trains and empowers students in digital art history. Whitlow is celebrated not only for her innovation but also for her mentorship and advocacy for staff and students alike.
https://source.washu.edu/2025/09/washington-people-betha-whitlow/
#DigitalArtHistory #DH #AcademicInnovation #WashU

Here is a portrait of Betha Whitlow, the driving force behind WashU’s Digital Art History Lab (DAHL).

Once a slide curator, she digitized vast collections and helped make her own role obsolete — paving the way for DAHL, which now trains and empowers students in digital art history. Whitlow is celebrated not only for her innovation but also for her mentorship and advocacy for staff and students alike.
https://source.washu.edu/2025/09/washington-people-betha-whitlow/
#DigitalArtHistory #DH #AcademicInnovation #WashU

Our bear mascot is playing golf! Shown on a framed mini print, available on 100+ made to order products (and also solo, or playing other sports too).

#BuyIntoArt #Bears #GoBears #GolfBears #Baylor #MissouriState #WashU #WUSTL #Mercer #NorthernColorado #Brown #EverTrue #CentralArkansas #Potsdam #TruettMcConnell #Barclay #BridgewaterState #LenoirRhyne #Pikeville #ShawneeState

Buy here: https://www.society6.com/a/products/bear-golf_framed-mini-art-print

A colossal impact 💥 during #Mars’ late accretion could explain the unusual amount of #rare metallic elements in Mars’ mantle https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/rare-metals-on-mars-and-earth-implicate-colossal-impacts

#Perseverance could detect traces of #yttrium, an element that, on Earth, is even rarer than #cerium https://artsci.washu.edu/ampersand/perseverance-rover-hunts-rare-earth-elements-mars ⚒️

#RareEarth #Mars #mining #SpaceMining #NASA #WashU

A colossal impact 💥 during #Mars’ late accretion could explain the unusual amount of #rare metallic elements in Mars’ mantle https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/rare-metals-on-mars-and-earth-implicate-colossal-impacts

#Perseverance could detect traces of #yttrium, an element that, on Earth, is even rarer than #cerium https://artsci.washu.edu/ampersand/perseverance-rover-hunts-rare-earth-elements-mars ⚒️

#RareEarth #Mars #mining #SpaceMining #NASA #WashU

Perfect for your favorite bear or bear fan, or bear graduate!

Other sports too, 100+ made to order products for every budget including stickers, prints, towels, Ts, totes, mugs, cards and more!

#BuyIntoArt #Bears #BearGifts #GraduationGifts #WUSTL #EverTrue #Potsdam #MissouriState #Mercer #Baylor #UCA #LenoirRhyne #BridgewaterState #ShawneeState #BerkshireSchool #LandonSchool #Pikeville #Baylor #TruettMcConnell #WashU #Brown #GoBears

Perfect for your favorite bear or bear fan, or bear graduate!

Other sports too, 100+ made to order products for every budget including stickers, prints, towels, Ts, totes, mugs, cards and more!

#BuyIntoArt #Bears #BearGifts #GraduationGifts #WUSTL #EverTrue #Potsdam #MissouriState #Mercer #Baylor #UCA #LenoirRhyne #BridgewaterState #ShawneeState #BerkshireSchool #LandonSchool #Pikeville #Baylor #TruettMcConnell #WashU #Brown #GoBears

As #WashUAlum🐻, it's an incredible honor to give GI Grand Round as visiting professor at #WashU. Extra special to speak in the room named after my first clinical research mentor Dr. Ray Clouse, who introduced me to the field when I was a med student & inspired me to become an investigator.

Thank you for the wonderful day. It was amazing to see old friends and to meet the fellows & faculty. It will always be special to be back❤️

#wums25

#KaterMurch at #WashU: #Building '#TimeTraveling' #Quantum Sensors

…"In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, Kater Murch … Professor of #Physics [&] director of the university’s Center for Quantum Leaps, and colleagues demonstrate a new type of quantum sensor that leverages quantum #entanglement to make time-traveling detectors"…

🔗 https://source.washu.edu/2024/07/building-time-traveling-quantum-sensors/ 10 Jul 2024
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkuqtd5wKd0
🔗 https://physics.wustl.edu/people/kater-murch

#Community #TimeTravel #Research #quantumphysics #science

#KaterMurch at #WashU: #Building '#TimeTraveling' #Quantum Sensors

…"In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, Kater Murch … Professor of #Physics [&] director of the university’s Center for Quantum Leaps, and colleagues demonstrate a new type of quantum sensor that leverages quantum #entanglement to make time-traveling detectors"…

🔗 https://source.washu.edu/2024/07/building-time-traveling-quantum-sensors/ 10 Jul 2024
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkuqtd5wKd0
🔗 https://physics.wustl.edu/people/kater-murch

#Community #TimeTravel #Research #quantumphysics #science

This will be *fun*: got an email from administration this morning touting "a new look for WashU", and already the university homepage redirects from wustl.edu to washu.edu. The FAQ promises that email addresses and everything else will be switched over the next few years.

A whole lot of accounts, links, etc. will be breaking; changing URLs every few years is ridiculous. (My email was artsci.wustl.edu, is now wustl.edu, and apparently soon washu.edu.)

#wustl #WashU #academicChatter #StLouis

Our bear mascot is available on 100+ products

solo/playing sports/different colors

Perfect for college #dormdecor

#BuyIntoArt #Bears #GoBears
#WashU #WUSTL #Pikeville #EverTrue #Potsdam #MissouriState #Mercer #Baylor #TruettMcConnell #UCA #LenoirRhyne #BridgewaterState #ShawneeState

Our bear mascot is available on 100+ products

solo/playing sports/different colors

Perfect for college #dormdecor

#BuyIntoArt #Bears #GoBears
#WashU #WUSTL #Pikeville #EverTrue #Potsdam #MissouriState #Mercer #Baylor #TruettMcConnell #UCA #LenoirRhyne #BridgewaterState #ShawneeState

"Asia in St. Louis" began as a community-based learning course from my colleague Prof. Ulug Kuzuoglu; it is now housed at #WashU libraries, and contains information, stories, and reflections on the role of #AsianAmericans in #StLouis

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/11d31dcbe2ad4780950817ec9db0cfcc?item=1

#history #stl

(Hopefully final) #WashU wall update: the fences are now gone as well; everything was normal on campus today. No communication from administration since graduation.

I don't know what's happened to everyone previously suspended; hard to find out now that the Riverfront Times is closed. https://www.stlpr.org/2024-05-22/rft-sold-riverfront-times-rip-alt-weekly-staff-laid-off

#wustl #STL #StLouis

(Hopefully final) #WashU wall update: the fences are now gone as well; everything was normal on campus today. No communication from administration since graduation.

I don't know what's happened to everyone previously suspended; hard to find out now that the Riverfront Times is closed. https://www.stlpr.org/2024-05-22/rft-sold-riverfront-times-rip-alt-weekly-staff-laid-off

#wustl #STL #StLouis

Apparently #WashU did reply to the #StLouis city government:

'The aldermen have proposed a resolution condemning the university’s response to last month's protest ...

Aldermanic President Megan Green, who was at the protest and was among the faculty members suspended ... said the letter from the university raised further concerns.

“They're defining any subject matter that makes them uncomfortable as being violent,” she said. “And that's very problematic.”'

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/government-politics/washu-bristles-at-st-louis-plan-to-condemn-its-protest-response/article_eb60b200-1460-11ef-9a53-5f4750fca8e8.html

Apparently #WashU did reply to the #StLouis city government:

'The aldermen have proposed a resolution condemning the university’s response to last month's protest ...

Aldermanic President Megan Green, who was at the protest and was among the faculty members suspended ... said the letter from the university raised further concerns.

“They're defining any subject matter that makes them uncomfortable as being violent,” she said. “And that's very problematic.”'

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/government-politics/washu-bristles-at-st-louis-plan-to-condemn-its-protest-response/article_eb60b200-1460-11ef-9a53-5f4750fca8e8.html

' “The use of suspensions is sort of one of the primary tools of private universities ... It's what [the] general counsel tells universities to do,” he says. “Put folks on paid suspension, make the process as vague and complicated and endless as possible, and in the meantime, we'll figure out what the next steps are. And hopefully some of these people will just go away.” '

- excerpted from
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/professor-suspended-by-wash-u-after-protests-hears-only-silence-42567338

#WashU #STL #StLouis #StudentProtests

' “The use of suspensions is sort of one of the primary tools of private universities ... It's what [the] general counsel tells universities to do,” he says. “Put folks on paid suspension, make the process as vague and complicated and endless as possible, and in the meantime, we'll figure out what the next steps are. And hopefully some of these people will just go away.” '

- excerpted from
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/professor-suspended-by-wash-u-after-protests-hears-only-silence-42567338

#WashU #STL #StLouis #StudentProtests

At least #WashU matched the fence/wall tarp to the color of the "in St Louis for St Louis" marketing banners. /s

I took this picture today, three days after graduation. No ID checkpoints, but only a few gaps in the fence, some of which were watched by radio-equipped "event staff". Very quiet on campus, few people around. No idea how long administration is planning to leave the walls in place.

#StLouis #wustl

At least #WashU matched the fence/wall tarp to the color of the "in St Louis for St Louis" marketing banners. /s

I took this picture today, three days after graduation. No ID checkpoints, but only a few gaps in the fence, some of which were watched by radio-equipped "event staff". Very quiet on campus, few people around. No idea how long administration is planning to leave the walls in place.

#StLouis #wustl

Thanks to the BEAR GRAD for buying stickers!

It is grad season. Our bear mascot is graduating, holding a diploma and wearing a mortar board. Makes a perfect unique graduation gift, other mascots available too

#BuyIntoArt #Bears #GoBears #Graduation #GraduationGifts #GraduationGiftIdeas #BearNation #EverTrue #BridgewaterState #WUSTL #Potsdam #Mercer #MissouriState #TruettMcConnell #UCA #WashU #Brown #ShawneeState #BerkshireSchool

Thanks to the BEAR GRAD for buying stickers!

It is grad season. Our bear mascot is graduating, holding a diploma and wearing a mortar board. Makes a perfect unique graduation gift, other mascots available too

#BuyIntoArt #Bears #GoBears #Graduation #GraduationGifts #GraduationGiftIdeas #BearNation #EverTrue #BridgewaterState #WUSTL #Potsdam #Mercer #MissouriState #TruettMcConnell #UCA #WashU #Brown #ShawneeState #BerkshireSchool

I'm hearing lots of helicopters near #WashU at the moment.

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/wash-u-wants-to-pay-tattletales-to-film-alongside-campus-police-42468927
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/pro-palestinian-protests-block-traffic-outside-washington-university/article_99ff352a-098a-11ef-8589-b7bf2041f484.html

#StLouis #protest

I'm hearing lots of helicopters near #WashU at the moment.

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/wash-u-wants-to-pay-tattletales-to-film-alongside-campus-police-42468927
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/pro-palestinian-protests-block-traffic-outside-washington-university/article_99ff352a-098a-11ef-8589-b7bf2041f484.html

#StLouis #protest

Different approaches, indeed.

"The protest ... went off largely without incident—a marked contrast to what happened over the weekend at Washington University ... St. Louis University officials took a different approach on Wednesday. The police presence was fairly light, and demonstrators could move about campus without any resistance from law enforcement. Police shut down part of Grand Avenue while students sat in the street listening to speeches."

https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2024-05-01/st-louis-university-israel-palestine-war-peaceful-protest #WashU #StLouis #SLU

Different approaches, indeed.

"The protest ... went off largely without incident—a marked contrast to what happened over the weekend at Washington University ... St. Louis University officials took a different approach on Wednesday. The police presence was fairly light, and demonstrators could move about campus without any resistance from law enforcement. Police shut down part of Grand Avenue while students sat in the street listening to speeches."

https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2024-05-01/st-louis-university-israel-palestine-war-peaceful-protest #WashU #StLouis #SLU

@nix That's quite a nice contrast to what happened at #WashU Saturday! And Grand is not a small side street; I'd guess that was rather more disruptive than people on campus on a weekend.

Does that mean the county police were at Washington University? Or were both #STL city police but asked to do different things?

#StLouis

@nix That's quite a nice contrast to what happened at #WashU Saturday! And Grand is not a small side street; I'd guess that was rather more disruptive than people on campus on a weekend.

Does that mean the county police were at Washington University? Or were both #STL city police but asked to do different things?

#StLouis

@skykiss “Outside agitators” is a police excuse. At #WashU, students were arrested and faculty suspended. Others were St. Louis community members invited to participate. Sure, Jill Stein was there, but she was not central — the protest would have happened without her.

#WashU Law School faculty, students, and alumni issue open letter condemning the #university's violent and unwarranted response to peaceful #protest in support of #Palestine:

“Resorting first to heavy-handed enforcement tactics, rather than engaging in discourse, is antithetical to the core purpose of education. It erodes the foundations of a healthy democratic society.”

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/wash-u-law-school-faculty-and-alumni-condemn-protest-crackdown-42452061

#HigherEd

I have not seen anyone mention it yet, so I will.

Over 100 #Gaza Protesters were arrested at #WashU in St. Louis over the weekend. Many students, and even some faculty. The students are suspended, kicked out of dorms, and will likely not graduate.

I have not seen anyone mention it yet, so I will.

Over 100 #Gaza Protesters were arrested at #WashU in St. Louis over the weekend. Many students, and even some faculty. The students are suspended, kicked out of dorms, and will likely not graduate.

@janhoglund Sarah Kendzior's entire post is so heartbreakingly open and honest.

"I covered the Ferguson protests ten years ago. I am used to seeing innocent people beaten and arrested in St. Louis. I am not used to seeing it happen at Wash U.

But if there is a definitive story of the past decade, it is how the net of oppression has widened. Whether through covid, climate change, or the loss of hard-won rights: we are all targets, we are all disposable."

#WashU #StLouis https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/theres-a-sniper-on-the-roof-of-the

@janhoglund Sarah Kendzior's entire post is so heartbreakingly open and honest.

"I covered the Ferguson protests ten years ago. I am used to seeing innocent people beaten and arrested in St. Louis. I am not used to seeing it happen at Wash U.

But if there is a definitive story of the past decade, it is how the net of oppression has widened. Whether through covid, climate change, or the loss of hard-won rights: we are all targets, we are all disposable."

#WashU #StLouis https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/theres-a-sniper-on-the-roof-of-the

The #protests aren't malicious and violent. The overwrought and intellectually dishonest administration response is. The protesters were nonviolent members of the #WashU and #StLouis communities, who are now banned from campus, with faculty forbidden from contacting students as if THEY were the threat to students' well-being. It was the admin's decision, not a student demand, to evacuate the library. The buildings on campus are still locked.

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/wash-u-bans-6-faculty-members-from-contact-with-students-after-mass-arrests-42437742

#gaza #HigherEd

The #protests aren't malicious and violent. The overwrought and intellectually dishonest administration response is. The protesters were nonviolent members of the #WashU and #StLouis communities, who are now banned from campus, with faculty forbidden from contacting students as if THEY were the threat to students' well-being. It was the admin's decision, not a student demand, to evacuate the library. The buildings on campus are still locked.

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/wash-u-bans-6-faculty-members-from-contact-with-students-after-mass-arrests-42437742

#gaza #HigherEd

Letter from #WashU faculty, staff, and graduate students denouncing the Chancellor's extreme response to and intellectually dishonest characterization of a protest in solidarity with #Gaza. Despite pieties about peace in his initial October email, the Chancellor has refused to even acknowledge the Student Union's resolution calling for #divestment from #Boeing.

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/100-faculty-staff-blast-wash-u-response-to-pro-palestine-protests-42415640

#HigherEd

Congratulations to Prof. Jin Lu, now at the National Center for Nanoscience, whose work on #singlemolecule #electrochemical imaging is now online in Chemical Science. Happy New Year!
#SMLM #WashU #WUSTL @chemicalscience #ChemicalScience

"Single-Molecule Electrochemical Imaging Resolves the Midpoint Potentials of Individual Fluorophores on Nanoporous Antimony-Doped Tin Oxide"
Chemical Science, 2024
https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SC05293A

It might be the middle of summer, but football season is coming!

This bear is all set to run the ball into the end zone...

https://pixels.com/featured/football-bear-red-college-mascot-designs.html

#BuyIntoArt #Bears #CollegeFootball #Football #Potsdam #MissouriState #LenoirRhyne #BrownU #EverTrue #BarclayCollege #BridgewaterState #WUSTL #WashU

It might be the middle of summer, but football season is coming!

This bear is all set to run the ball into the end zone...

https://pixels.com/featured/football-bear-red-college-mascot-designs.html

#BuyIntoArt #Bears #CollegeFootball #Football #Potsdam #MissouriState #LenoirRhyne #BrownU #EverTrue #BarclayCollege #BridgewaterState #WUSTL #WashU

US human-subjects researchers: participant gender-related info is now extra sensitive.

Last summer I posted (linked below) about my (successful) quest for confidentiality guarantees from #WashU, and how we changed our screening questions to have pregnancy in an "any of the above" list, rather than separately.

Unfortunately, we now need to treat some gender and relationship-related data with the same heightened caution.

https://mvpa.blogspot.com/2023/06/us-researchers-use-extra-caution-with.html

#researchEthics #privacy #academicChatter

US human-subjects researchers: participant gender-related info is now extra sensitive.

Last summer I posted (linked below) about my (successful) quest for confidentiality guarantees from #WashU, and how we changed our screening questions to have pregnancy in an "any of the above" list, rather than separately.

Unfortunately, we now need to treat some gender and relationship-related data with the same heightened caution.

https://mvpa.blogspot.com/2023/06/us-researchers-use-extra-caution-with.html

#researchEthics #privacy #academicChatter

Our NIH #R35 #MIRA has been awarded! I'm glad to be continuing collaborations within #WashU #McKelveyEngineering, and pushing our development of #6D #singlemolecule #nanoscopy.

https://engineering.wustl.edu/news/2023/Looking-deeper-with-adaptive-six-dimensional-nanoscopy.html

Last Friday I (and everyone else at #WashU?) got an email from #box announcing "The all-new Box AI." The university box storage is described as #HIPAA compliant and encrypted when stored (https://it.wustl.edu/items/box-summary-of-terms-and-conditions/), which sounds good.

But the "related to providing file storage services" restriction sounds like it would allow #BoxAI, since that is described as improving access to the institution's files stored in box. (https://www.box.com/ai). I'll be asking our IT for clarification.

@debruine @hedgielib Just the phrases "Box AI" and "content cloud" makes me wonder how HIPAA-compliant box actually is. Maybe they argue info becomes de-identified when crawled by a LMM?

The email link isn't informative, just to an event (https://events.box.com/content_cloud_summit_2023). Anyone know more? I'll dig in a bit next week; we have sensitive research data on box that I thought would be ok based on #WashU 's contract with #box.

#academicChatter #HIPAA #AI

Research technician II

Come join us in #WashU as a #Research technician

https://jobrxiv.org/job/washington-university-in-st-louis-school-of-medicine-27778-research-technician-ii/?feed_id=43308

#ScienceJobs #job
St. Louis #UnitedStatesUS #ResearchTechnician
https://jobrxiv.org/job/washington-university-in-st-louis-school-of-medicine-27778-research-technician-ii/?feed_id=43308

Research technician II

Come join us in #WashU as a #Research technician

https://jobrxiv.org/job/washington-university-in-st-louis-school-of-medicine-27778-research-technician-ii/?feed_id=42072

#ScienceJobs #job
St. Louis #UnitedStatesUS #ResearchTechnician
https://jobrxiv.org/job/washington-university-in-st-louis-school-of-medicine-27778-research-technician-ii/?feed_id=42072

Here's a fun little video from our colleagues at Access STL. Going from #WashU to #UnionStation and back on the #Metrolink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmOthm3AsL4

#STL #STLouis #train #urbanism

STL Students: If you're enrolled in any of the following schools, get your free Metro Spring Pass: #SWIC, #STLCC, #WashU, #SLU

#UMSL has them for $25.

Students at any other school can get them for $125.

Check with your school or see here: https://www.metrostlouis.org/student-passes/

#stl #stlouis #urbanism #metro

A definite highlight of the semester was getting Holley her very own #WashU ID. She’s officially a research dog.