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Des Moines-based social and environmental justice art activist Jordan Weber uses sculptures, installations and green spaces to focus on institutional and environmental racism. Weber spoke to St. Louis Public Radio’s Chad Davis to discuss his latest project and how his work fuses art and activism.

Loss of smell is one of the telltale signs of COVID-19, affecting up to 80% of patients by some estimates. Though there is no cure, an experimental therapy currently being tested at Washington University has given some patients hope.

The Federal Statistical Research Data Center will be housed at Washington University’s Danforth Campus.

A new tool developed in part by a St. Louis mathematician compares the chances of catching the coronavirus across different activities at public gatherings and helps pinpoint which may be the riskiest.

Washington University Sociology professor David Cunningham shares what we can learn about right-wing, white nationalist groups today — and best practices for defeating them — by studying their mobilization during other moments in our nation's history.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released federal guidance last month, confirming that employers can require staff to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

St. Louis-area colleges plan to follow the same public health practices put in place during the fall, which helped most local universities avoid large coronavirus outbreaks.

At least 13.6 million Americans have caught the coronavirus this year — more people than the entire populations of Michigan and Iowa combined. But the situation likely will get much worse this winter, based on new research from Washington University.

Only a small fraction of St. Louis County residents have antibodies to the coronavirus, according to a recent survey launched by the Institute of Public Health at Washington University. This means that the vast majority of people in the region are still susceptible to COVID-19, says Dr. Elvin Geng, an infectious disease professor at the Washington University School of Medicine.

Washington University is looking at Dicamba at the molecular level to see if there is a better way to keep it from drifting away from where it's sprayed.