Month: August 2025

In Rebuilding the American Town, the Sam Fox School’s Patty Heyda helps redefine our understanding of the smaller cities that make up the urban landscape.

WashU’s Film & Media Archive is making 42 years of material from Kartemquin Films — the Chicago-based documentary production company — accessible to scholars and the public.

WashU scientists are collaborating to unlock secrets of a millennia-old scourge. Efforts may lead to an increased understanding of and improved treatments for tuberculosis, which is once again on the rise.

Working in partnership with communities, WashU launches a new initiative to improve nutrition and health locally, nationally and globally.

WashU kicks off With You: The WashU Campaign to secure resources needed to continue generating lasting change through vital research, patient care and educational access.

Eric J. Lenze, MD, and his team at WashU Medicine’s Healthy Mind Lab are among 40 semifinalists in the XPRIZE Healthspan competition awarded $250,000 to study approaches to improve healthy aging.

Feng Jiao, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, was elected a 2025 American Chemical Society fellow.

Beyond registering for classes and decorating their dorms, Andrea Stewart-Douglas, WashU’s director of student financial wellness programs, has another item for new college students’ to-do lists: Make a budget.

The Summer Philosophy Academy is a free one-week program for curious high school students. Through lectures, discussions and field trips, participants explore urgent ethical and philosophical questions about political polarization, artificial intelligence, social media and more.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have used a variety of models to measure ambient concentrations of black carbon in the “global south” and found estimates of these harmful emissions have been grossly underestimated.