Campus & Community

Mark R. Rank, WashU’s Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare, is a winner of the NYC Big Book Award in the sociology category for his book “The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us.”

Images from on and around the WashU campuses.

WashU has built an athletic program that prioritizes development of the student first, and the athlete second.

Ronald Krieger, AB ’59, shares a vivid memory of meeting composer Aaron Copland at WashU in 1958.

How a bit of moxie and a whole lot of heart jump-started the WashU women’s soccer program.

Launched in 2007, WashU’s Alberti Program offers young people a hands-on introduction to architecture, a field rarely included in the K-12 curriculum. Students ask the same questions, use the same tools and build the same models as real-life architects.

As public trust in higher education falters, WashU leans into our strengths of affordability, career readiness and open dialogue.

After many years of support for scholarships and innovative health initiatives, the Bursky family made a landmark commitment of $200 million through our With You campaign — the largest gift in WashU history — to accelerate the work of the School of Public Health.

Vincent Mellnick, MD, has been named senior vice chair and division director of academic practice and Malak Itani, MD, has been named section chief of abdominal imaging. Both are faculty members in WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology.

Pamela Barmash, interim chair of Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern studies in WashU Arts & Sciences, has been elected president of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew.