Year: 2024

Trained as an engineer, Janie Brennan, a senior lecturer at the WashU McKelvey School of Engineering, now builds courses instead of machines. She’s using her classroom to peel away systemic and cultural barriers to engineering. 

Bill Smith, a longtime employee and former associate vice chancellor at Washington University in St. Louis, died Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. He was 80.

The WashU Venture Network Follow-on Investments is a joint effort between WashU’s Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the “In St. Louis, For St. Louis” initiative.

WashU earth scientists in Arts & Sciences are mapping Earth’s interior and analyzing lava rocks from a volcanic hotspot near the islands of Samoa.

Sophia Hayes, in Arts & Sciences, co-authored a study on strategic directions guiding high magnetic field science with pursuits in chemistry, medical MRI, low-temperature physics, superconducting materials and fusion. Challenges to the helium supply figured prominently throughout.

Loretta J. Ross will be the featured speaker for “Reflecting on Reproductive Justice,” a three-day public symposium hosted Sept. 5-7 by WashU’s Reproductive Justice, Health, Rights working group in Arts & Sciences.

A computer scientist at Washington University has received funding from Google to improve grounding in large language models.

Architect Mimi Hoang, urban planner Toni Griffin and artist Josephine Halvorson are among the internationally renowned creative professionals who will discuss their work for the Sam Fox School’s fall Public Lecture Series.

A team of researchers that includes scientists from Washington University have received $1.5 million grant from the Human Frontier Science Program to study a potentially transformative new mode of cell-to-cell communication.

The Black Rep will launch its 48th season with Sheldon Epps’ beloved musical revue “Blues in the Night.”