Campus & Community

Lee Epstein, the Ethan A.H. Shepley Distinguished University Professor at WashU, has been invested as a member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters in recognition of outstanding scholarly achievement.

Melanie Lucht has been appointed the inaugural vice chancellor for enterprise risk management at Washington University in St. Louis, effective Nov. 9, announced Nichol Luoma, executive vice chancellor for enterprise operations and chief operating officer.

WashU has won this year’s College Transit Challenge, an annual competition that encourages students, staff and faculty from local colleges to use their U-passes to ride Metro buses and trains. 

Olin Business School has doubled its enrollment of talented veterans in recent years. Most veteran MBA students attend WashU for free, using a combination of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Yellow Ribbon benefits and Olin scholarship dollars.

Images from on and around the WashU campuses.

WashU Medicine’s 80-year collaboration with Veterans Affairs St. Louis has spurred clinical innovation, scientific discovery and physician training.

Two new funding streams will examine how academic inquiry works and how collaboration bolsters the humanities.

Physician Andrés Bur has been named chief of the Division of Head and Neck Surgery in the Department of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery at WashU Medicine. Bur is a leading expert in precision oncology, machine learning and translational research.

Timothy Miller and Anjan Thakor are the recipients of WashU’s 2026 faculty achievement awards. They were among several people recognized during WashU’s annual Founders Day celebration.

WashU will host two polling places on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3. St. Louis County voters may cast their ballots at the Athletic Complex, while those registered to vote in St. Louis are invited to vote at the McDonnell Medical Sciences Building, 4565 McKinley Ave.