Month: January 2025

Student group Silly Squared takes the lighthearted creativity of stickers and turns them into a meaningful platform for WashU students to share their artwork. Every week, the group prints thousands of stickers and hands them out to students for free.

The Rev. Callista Isabelle, WashU’s inaugural director for religious, spiritual and ethical life, will receive the Zenobia Hikes Memorial Award from NASPA, the nation’s leading organization for student affairs administrators, at its annual conference in New Orleans in March. 

Violinist Karen Gomyo, “a first-rate artist of real musical command,” (Chicago Tribune) and Orion Weiss, a “brilliant pianist” (The New York Times) with “powerful technique and exceptional insight” (The Washington Post), will perform music of Mozart, Bach, Adams, Dvořák and Brahms Feb. 16 for WashU’s Great Artists Series.

WashU’s School of Continuing & Professional Studies is launching a new program that prepares adult learners for high-demand jobs in medical and research laboratories.  Grants are available to cover the full cost of tuition for eligible students.

Charles Lipton, an honorary emeritus trustee of Washington University, died Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025, in Wellington, Fla. He was 96. Lipton also had served as chair of the WashU Public Relations Council for over 30 years.

The Office of Resource Management invites WashU faculty and staff to learn about WashU’s partnership with Southwest Airlines and other preferred travel partners. The webinar will take place at 11 a.m. Monday, Feb. 3.

A new award supports work at Washington University to develop a framework that will allow autonomous systems to maintain safety even in the face of sensor malfunctions, mechanical failures or deliberate cyberattacks.

More than a dozen interdisciplinary research projects won the latest batch of “Here and Next” Seed Grants.

Engineers at Washington University will be working to improve energy efficiency in production of a potent biofuel thanks to a $2.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded Aimilia Gastounioti, an assistant professor at WashU Medicine, a five-year $3 million grant to improve breast cancer risk assessments for Black women.