Every day, researchers at Washington University make an impact in everything from treating disease to better understanding our world and our history. Here, we take a look back at some of 2014’s most-read stories on research in the lab and in the field, our impact in the community and moments from campus life.

Washington University and the Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society (EPNNES) have announced plans to create the Newman Numismatic Portal, an online research tool that will become the ultimate go-to resource for the study of coins and currency. A $2 million commitment from EPNNES will support it.

A balloon-borne array of antennas is listening for radio bursts made by particles from outer space shooting through the atmosphere and plowing into the Antarctic ice sheet. Calm winds allowed the ANITA III experiment to launch into the polar vortex above Antarctica on Dec. 17. Two university physicists are co-investigators on the multi-university ANITA project.

Secondary infection with hepatitis C does not cause the memory loss, personality changes and other mental impairments seen in patients with long-term HIV infections, a new study shows. The study’s first author is David Clifford, MD, of the School of Medicine.

Herbert Rosenbaum, professor emeritus of neurology at the School of Medicine, died Dec. 10, 2014. He was 89. Rosenbaum joined the faculty in 1954 and taught the Department of Neurology’s practice of medicine course for 61 years.