Month: February 2021

With the specter of COVID-19 and daily twists and turns, last fall’s unusual presidential election served as an exciting live case study for a new Washington University course.

New York Times bestselling author Susannah Cahalan confronts her own journey with misdiagnosis in her latest publication, The Great Pretender.

America’s insistence on gun rights is violating its citizens international human rights. Law experts talk about what the United States can do about the gun violence crisis.

Not only do low-income and first-generation students at WashU have a plethora of resources available to them, they also have supportive top administrators who understand exactly what the students are dealing with, because they’re first-generation too.

Helping first-generation and low-income students means looking beyond applications and really figuring out the need.

Chancellor Andrew D. Martin delivers his State of the University address and updates the campus community on the university’s resilience and perseverance.

In 2020, so much about what we know to be normal came to a grinding halt for the WashU community. One week in March, we’re looking ahead to spring break, and then suddenly it’s an unending hiatus. Yet the work of the university, and its families, goes on.

WashU alumni are among the researchers working around-the-clock on the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. They say they won’t rest until there are no more deaths from COVID-19.

Roger Smith, AB ’93, MS ’96 wanted to help others who had hearing loss like him. So he joined the company that gave him sound back.

Find out how Washington University got its name, and learn more about its founding, its mission and some of its pivotal leaders over the years.