Author: Susan Killenberg McGinn

Washington University will award five honorary degrees during its May 15 Commencement ceremony. Among the recipients is Sterling K. Brown, a St. Louis native and award-winning actor and producer, who will deliver the Commencement address.

Sterling K. Brown, a St. Louis native and an award-winning actor who has earned three Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe, will deliver the May 15, 2023, Commencement address, according to Chancellor Andrew D. Martin.

Jay Turner, an internationally renowned environmental researcher, has been named the inaugural James McKelvey Professor of Engineering Education in the McKelvey School of Engineering.

New research from Calvin Lai, in Arts & Sciences, suggests that the daylong implicit bias-oriented training programs now common in most U.S. police departments are unlikely to reduce racial inequity in policing.

Undergraduate tuition will be $61,750 for the 2023-24 academic year — a $2,330 (3.9%) increase over the 2022-23 academic tuition of $59,420, announced Amy B. Kweskin, executive vice chancellor for finance and chief financial officer.

Here are some Frequently Asked Questions — and answers — about tuition and Washington University in St. Louis’ financial resources.

Lisa Weingarth, vice president of external affairs at the St. Louis-based nonprofit Rung for Women, has been named to the newly created role of senior adviser for St. Louis initiatives in the Office of the Chancellor. Her appointment is effective Feb. 20.

Work by Sang-Hoon Bae, an assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering, and his international team of collaborators would make next-generation electronics faster and use less power. Their study was published Jan. 18 in Nature.

Washington University recognized distinguished faculty, alumni and friends at the annual Founders Day celebration Nov. 5 at St. Louis Union Station Hotel.

Leila Sadat, a law professor and founder of the Initiative on Gun Violence & Human Rights at Washington University in St. Louis, equates the U.S. government’s failure to prevent and reduce gun violence with violating children’s human rights. “America’s kids are not okay. As gun violence surges and politicians dither, school shootings are traumatizing a generation of youth,” Sadat wrote in a recent essay. “While only one manifestation of America’s gun violence crisis, school shootings are shocking in their ferocity, the senseless and random nature of the violence, and their impact upon millions of young, captive and vulnerable individuals.”