Cindy Brantmeier, PhD (right), chair of education in Arts & Sciences, provides free professional development to teachers at St. Louis Public Schools’ Oak Hill Elementary, where half of all students are learning English. The results are amazing: After posting some of the region’s lowest test scores in language arts, Oak Hill students increased their school’s score by 20 points, and it is now fully accredited.

To further the goal of improving patient safety and quality in health care, three institutions — the Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College, St. Louis College of Pharmacy and the School of Medicine — have created the Center for Interprofessional Education at Washington University Medical Center.