Business & Entrepreneurship

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.

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.

Sydney E. Scott, an associate professor of marketing at Olin Business School, has been named one of Poets & Quants’ “Best 40-under-40 MBA Professors” for 2025.

CJ Harrington is taking lessons learned at WashU to bet on himself and build a life — and a career — from the ground up.

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.

As the Oklahoma Legislature clears the way for autonomous practice by nurse practitioners, it’s time for a broader conversation regarding the scope and duration of training and certification needed to independently provide care to patients of all types, says Patrick Aguilar, MD, a business of health expert at WashU Olin Business School.