Month: August 2025

William H. Webster, an honorary emeritus trustee at Washington University in St. Louis, died Friday, Aug. 8, 2025, in Warrenton, Va. He was 101. 

Beginning Thursday, Aug. 21, the WashU Mobile app will be retired as part of a planned transition to a suite of specialized mobile applications designed to provide direct access to the services that students, faculty and staff use the most.

WashU Medicine postdoctoral researchers Wesley Saintilnord and Matthew Reynolds have been named Jane Coffin Childs Fellows. The fellowship is designed to support the most promising postdoctoral scientists as they seek to advance research into the causes and treatments of human disease.

A new study from WashU Medicine researchers identifies possible ways to make cancer drugs called PARP inhibitors more effective, including potential strategies to re-establish their effectiveness in tumors that develop resistance to this treatment.

Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD, a clinical innovator who has developed new devices and techniques for heart valve surgeries, has been named the new director of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery in the Department of Surgery at WashU Medicine.

Over the next several weeks, the 1,970 members of the Class of 2029 will learn more about WashU’s academic resources, student groups and boba tea options. But during move in, WashU resident advisors, WashU Student Associates and student leaders have one goal: to make every new student feel at home. 

A researcher at Washington University in St. Louis developed a way to create an embedded fingerprint in 3D-printed parts that would withstand the item being broken, a potential way to track “ghost guns.”

John E. Powers II has been appointed vice chancellor and general counsel for Washington University in St. Louis, Chancellor Andrew D. Martin announced. He has served as chief counsel at WashU Medicine.

A new WashU Medicine study led by Bhooma Aravamuthan, MD, DPhil, identifies a standardized way to assess leg dystonia, a painful movement disorder that commonly affects children with cerebral palsy.

A WashU Medicine neuroscientist and fan of the Philadelphia Eagles, Jason Yi, has received a $400,000 grant to study autism spectrum disorder from the football team’s foundation.