Year: 2021

Anne Marie Knott, the Robert and Barbara Frick Professor of Business at Olin Business School, has won the 2021 Olin Award for a forthcoming paper exploring research quotient in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

The Washington University community — administrators, faculty, students and staff — rose to the challenge of the unprecedented COVID-19 emergency, innovating every step of the way.

A foodborne fungus that is harmless to most people exacerbates gastrointestinal symptoms in people with Crohn’s disease by preventing intestinal ulcers from healing, according to a new study from the School of Medicine and the Cleveland Clinic.

One year since COVID-19 upended our lives, we thank the WashU community and look ahead to better days.

The Gateway Army ROTC Battalion at Washington University in St. Louis will receive the inaugural award of the Department of Defense Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and Educational Institution Partnership Excellence Award during a ceremony on the Washington University campus March 15.

An innovative course envisioned by Feng Sheng Hu, dean of the faculty of Arts & Sciences, offered perspectives not only from Arts & Sciences faculty, but from experts across disciplines and across the country. It also welcomed students from all schools and all areas of study, bringing even more viewpoints to the table. And more than […]

As we mark the one-year anniversary today of the World Health Organization first declaring a global COVID-19 pandemic, Washington University in St. Louis experts, including from its School of Medicine, look both back and ahead.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Brown School are working together to decrease the burden of COVID-19 on a vulnerable group. The School of Medicine will offer 50,000 saliva tests for the SARS-CoV-2 virus to students, teachers, and staff in the six special education schools operated by the Special School District of St. […]

A new study from the School of Medicine shows that whole genome sequencing is at least as accurate — and often better than — conventional genetic tests that help determine the treatment for a patient’s blood cancer.

When the crowdsourced supercomputing project Folding@home first announced a shift to coronavirus research and asked for new volunteers to run its software and expand its computing capacity, organizations and citizen scientists from all walks of life heeded the call. Now, about four months later, the number of volunteers has increased a hundredfold. Based at Washington University School of […]