In 2015, the Heinz Nixdorf Museum in Paderborn, Germany, opened an exhibition honoring women in computing. In addition to pioneers like Ada Lovelace, the museum recognized the contributions of Mary Allen Wilkes, whose work at MIT and Washington University was essential to the development of the Laboratory Instrument Computer (LINC) then on display at the [Read more]
Learn more about policy changes for Journal Citation Reports, new website pages for the NIH Public Access Policy, and the Papermill Detection service from Wiley.
Christopher Nolan’s Academy Award winning 2023 film Oppenheimer is based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s 2005 biography of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The movie cleverly compresses several decades of Oppenheimer’s life around his leadership in building the first atomic bomb and his subsequent political blacklisting during the McCarthy era. Although none are [Read more]
Why should WashU authors care about copyright? Knowledge of copyright, especially author rights, helps authors of scholarly works make informed publishing decisions such as where to publish and how the work will be used after publication.
This is the second of a three-part series on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in biomedicine. Part I introduced readers to the basics of AI and Part III will focus on authorship issues related to AI and publishing.
Clarivate Analytics released the Grants Index on the Web of Science platform in January 2024. The Grants Index contains over 5 million grant award records, 1953 to current, from over 400 funding agencies and more than 15 countries.
One of the distinguishing features of early modern Europe is its fascination with and embrace of the Greco-Roman past. While this is perhaps most obvious in the literary and visual arts—think of the many new editions of classical works such as Ovid’s Metamorphoses, or paintings such as Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus—medicine was equally enamored [Read more]
Julia Stimson’s life epitomizes service, spanning her pioneering work in social service to her leadership in nursing during wartime, leaving a lasting legacy.
The WUSTL REDCap Confluence Documentation recently received a major upgrade following the migration from version 7 and system update to version 14. The documentation contains several pages of information, shareable links, and tools to help WUSTL REDCap users work more efficiently in the WUSTL Instance of REDCap. Some highlights include: 1. A new Frequently Asked [Read more]
Is your sweetie into immunology? Does your heartthrob have a lab job? If so, send your beloved one of these valentines from the Becker Archives!