Campus & Community

Soobin Park, doctoral candidate at the WashU Brown School, will receive a $10,000 grant from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy to support her PhD dissertation project on “dementia care deserts.”

WashU Serves has released volunteer dates and locations for Service Saturdays through 2026. These community volunteer days are open to WashU faculty, staff, students, alumni and all other community members.

Images from on and around the WashU campuses.

WashU was ranked ninth among U.S. universities in the inaugural Cure Innovation Index, an assessment of how effectively institutions translate research advances into market-ready innovations. The index cited WashU’s biomedical research capabilities and support for commercialization and innovation, among other strengths.

The conclusion of the NCAA season brought success to a number WashU student athletes, including the women’s tennis team and track-and-field athlete Peter Lichtenberger.

Janet S. Lee, MD, a physician-scientist in the Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care at WashU Medicine, is internationally recognized for groundbreaking research in acute lung injury.

The AT&T Digital Navigation Program, a free program offered through the WashU Institute for School Partnership, helped about 50 local educators learn how to use the right tools the right way.

The Riverfront Times print editions from 1977–2013 are now available to researchers at WashU Libraries’ Department of Special Collections. WashU curators undertook the project to ensure a valuable local history resource is preserved and usable by researchers.

WashU Chancellor Andrew D. Martin has been named the 2026 recipient of the National Association of Colleges and Employers Career Services Champion Award, a national honor recognizing visionary leadership in advancing career education and student success.

Tate Duch and Melissa Rockwell-Hopkins have been named to expanded leadership roles in the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor for Administration and Chief Administrative Officer at Washington University in St. Louis.