Business & Entrepreneurship

This summer, students in WashU’s Digital Transformation Summer Corps developed AI-driven tools and products that advance important interdisciplinary research projects. The new program is part of the Digital Intelligence & Innovation Accelerator, a “Here & Next” initiative.

Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis has received a landmark $10 million dual-purpose gift from longtime university benefactors Jerry and Judy Kent to create an endowed deanship and to propel the school’s Business of Health initiative.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are working on giving biomanufacturers a competitive edge by solving the challenge of continuous fermentation.

Career Catalysts is a series about WashU interns, by WashU interns. This installment features Olin Business School student Joel Shin, who spent his summer at the Aspirations Network, a nonprofit that supports St. Louis youth.

Hong Chen, a biomedical engineer at WashU, shares the potential for using synthetic torpor technology to develop new treatments for a range of illnesses and injuries.

Career Catalysts is a new series by WashU interns, about WashU interns. In this installment, see how Fiona Sun, a McKelvey School of Engineering student, is working with Equine Smartbit to develop a sort of smartwatch for horses at Fairmount Park.

Two Brown School faculty members have been awarded a combined $1.4 million in grants from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to support research focused on improving economic mobility and reducing wealth disparities. 

The FDA has given market authorization to a WashU startup’s technology that quickly and accurately maps the sensitive areas in patients’ brains to help neurosurgeons plan safe and effective surgeries.

Environmental engineers at WashU have developed hydrogels to transform wastewater nutrients into useful feedstocks and fertilizers.

Robi Mitra at WashU Medicine has received the Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. In addition, in 2024 WashU jumped 11 places to No. 26 on the National Academy of Inventors list of the top 100 U.S. universities granted U.S. utility patents.