Year: 2024

As director of the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, Stephanie Kirk wants to empower humanities graduate students to use their expertise in a range of meaningful careers.

Alumnus Deko Devins is on a mission to make solar power more widespread, affordable and accessible.

Washington University School of Medicine researchers have found that the immune system can be its own worst enemy in the fight against cancer. In a new study in mice, they found that a subset of immune cells inadvertently dampens cancer immunotherapy.

Researchers at Washington University studied the role of serotonin in altering odor-driven behavioral and neural responses in locusts.

Kevin Blake, a scientific editor in the Department of Pathology & Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been honored for an essay he wrote titled “Missing Microbiomes: Global Underrepresentation Restricts Who Research Will Benefit.”

Raja Dandamudi, MD, Vikas Dharnidharka, MD, and Tarek Alhamad, MD, all at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, contributed to a large study that identified a novel way of detecting signs of organ rejection.

Using novels and readings from all over the world, an Arts & Sciences course teaches students to look at the stories that exist on both sides of a geopolitical line.

As director of the Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park, Kathryn Feldt works at the confluence of natural elegance and architectural brilliance.

Katya Apekina’s “Mother Doll” takes on the spirit world, the Russian Revolution, a surprise pregnancy and personal upheaval — and it’s hilarious.

How graphic artist Bonnie Korte became, at 72, the first woman in the U.S. to earn kudan, a ninth degree rank in judo.