Our people
Wu named Pew Biomedical Scholar
WashU Medicine molecular microbiologist Meng Wu was honored for her research on how early-life gut microbes shape lifelong immunity.
Our expertise
Silkworm cultivation predated the Silk Road in southern Central Asia
The silkworm moth, whose caterpillars have been used in silk production since antiquity, may have been brought to southern Central Asia 4,000 years ago — nearly 2,000 years earlier than previously assumed — according to new research from WashU.
Activating glass for next-generation semiconductor substrates
WashU’s Sang-Hoon Bae plans to use glass to grow 2D crystals with a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
Our impact
‘Plants get sick!’: WashU scientists, U. City students research plants together
Biologist Rachel Penczykowski, in WashU Arts & Sciences, is an expert in infectious disease in plants. She conducts much of her research in the field — rural farmland, urban parks and, on this sunny day, a garden bed at Jackson Park Elementary School in the University City School District.
‘You have to have a vision’
Thirteen graduates of the School of Continuing & Professional Studies Prison Education Project received their degrees May 28 during a commencement ceremony held at the Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Vandalia, Mo.
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‘The right thing to do at the right place’
A transformational $200 million commitment from the Bursky Family Foundation will strengthen the School of Public Health, which will now be named the Andrew M. and Jane M. Bursky School of Public Health.
