10+ hour, 53+ min ago  (687+ words) The Warshaws continue to invest in the university that brought them together nearly 50 years ago. When a budding entrepreneur and a therapist-in-training met at a party decades ago at Wash U, it set the stage for a lifelong devotion to…...

6+ hour, 18+ min ago  (741+ words) Through her international nonprofit, alumna Jue Jue Min Thu provides displaced people from her native Myanmar, Thailand and elsewhere access to mental health resources. Attending the Brown School provided Jue Jue Min Thu, MSW "16, with the skills and networks she…...

11+ hour, 2+ min ago  (742+ words) Olin's Sydney Scott researches why consumers act the way they do in the grocery aisle " and the doctor's office. Growing up in Los Angeles, California, Sydney Scott was accustomed to Whole Foods and "organic" labels. Yet instead of simply filling…...

15+ hour, 38+ min ago  (1668+ words) At Wash U, students are connecting health to design, policy and the experiences that shape everyday life Public health is often associated with hospitals, disease outbreaks and government agencies. But health also is shaped by architecture " by sidewalks, green space,…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago  (219+ words) Jin Huang has been installed as the Irving Louis Horowitz Professor in Social Policy at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. A ceremony took place April 22. He delivered an installation address titled "What Institutions Make Possible." Huang…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago  (667+ words) In the split second after you hear a noise, your brain is already making a potentially life-or-death deduction: Did I do that, or did something else? Our nervous systems answer this question using something called corollary discharge, a copy of…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (432+ words) For the first time in program history, the Wash U Bears have won the Learfield Directors" Cup, presented by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics, the organization announced June 9. The Directors" Cup is widely considered the ultimate measurement…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (292+ words) Researchers at Wash U have found a promising way to improve electrostatic capacitors using an innovative design of the ferroelectric materials that maintain electric polarization. The work caught the eye of component manufacturer Samsung Electro-Mechanics, which provided a $1. 8 million grant…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (161+ words) Julia Coric, a rising senior studying chemistry in Wash U Arts & Sciences, has been selected as an Astronaut Scholar for the 2026-27 school year. She is among 79 students from 54 universities selected for the prestigious award." Coric is a member of the…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (204+ words) Renowned physician-scientist is national leader in research and treatment of blood cancers Ravi Vij, MD, who has dedicated his career to advancing treatments for blood cancers, has been installed as the inaugural Jeffrey S. and Prue H. Gershman Distinguished Professor in the…...