Campus & Community

Xiumin Martin, a leading accounting scholar whose research deepens our understanding of finance markets and directly informs accounting policy and corporate governance, was installed in November as the inaugural Margaret Oung Distinguished Professor at Olin Business School.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are testing for elevated lead levels potentially kicked up in the destructive path of the 2025 tornado.

James Baldwin Review, the preeminent peer-reviewed journal dedicated to Baldwin’s life and legacy, which is co-edited by WashU’s Dwight A. McBride and Justin A. Joyce, has been named Best Special Issue of 2025 from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.

WashU faculty and students are invited to apply for the Penelope Biggs Travel Award for travel involving the study of Greco-Roman antiquity. Applications are due Feb. 15.

Thomas Kannampallil, chief data scientist and assistant dean for data science at WashU Medicine, and Laura Wiley, an associate professor of neurology at WashU Medicine, have been named 2025 American College of Medical Informatics fellows.

Eric P. Mumford, the Rebecca and John Voyles Professor of Architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, has been named a 2026 Distinguished Professor by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ASCA).

Images from on and around the WashU campuses.

WashU Medicine construction projects will temporarily affect pedestrian traffic around Ellen S. Clark Hope Plaza and Wohl Circle. Also, the Bridge Renewal project to repair water infiltration in the tunnels and utilities below campus enters a new phase.

More than 6,400 historic images of WashU’s buildings, events and people are now available to view. The newly digitized photos run from the university’s founding in 1853 to 2007 and include valuable metadata, some of it pulled from handwritten notes scribbled on the back of the original photographs.

As part of its ongoing mission to strengthen the undergraduate experience, WashU plans to build a new South 40 residence hall along Forsyth Boulevard. The new building will accommodate 600 first-year students and sophomores and feature a large courtyard and multipurpose room for events and gathering. Construction is anticipated to start this summer and is expected to be complete in time for the 2028-29 academic year.