Campus & Community

Joe Loewenstein, a professor of English​ and director of the Humanities Digital Workshop and the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities, all in Arts & Sciences, will serve as co-principal investigator for a $798,000 Human Networks and Data Science grant from the National Science Foundation.

The Inclusive Excellence Advisory Committee is actively working to develop guidance that will help WashU advance its commitments to diversity and inclusion. The committee will recommend systems and structures that allow students, faculty and staff to engage with university values in line with civil rights laws.

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff until sunset Sunday, Sept. 14, as a mark of respect for Charlie Kirk who was killed in a shooting Sept. 10 in Utah.

Michael H. Johnson, MD, has been named director of the Division of Urologic Surgery in the Department of Surgery at WashU Medicine.

Emily Martin, a prospect management consultant with University Advancement, has been selected for Focus St. Louis’ fall 2025 Women in Leadership cohort. 

Roughly 550 WashU undergraduate and graduate students gathered in Tisch Park Sept. 3 for the annual civic dialogue event — a nearly fourfold increase since its debut in 2023.

Jianjun Guan, an expert in biomaterials and tissue engineering, has been named the Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.

Chancellor Andrew D. Martin has announced a new Washington University in St. Louis initiative to further promote academic freedom, viewpoint diversity and civic education. The Ordered Liberty Project will recruit endowed faculty across disciplines and support existing programs to build an intellectual culture where rigorous debate strengthens both scholarship and student learning. 

Career Catalysts, a series about WashU interns, by WashU interns, visits junior Kiersten Anderson as she leads a therapy session with individuals with memory-related illnesses. Her internship at St. Louis nonprofit Memory Keepers is funded by the Chancellor’s Career Fellows Program, which supports low-income, first-generation students.

Nathan O. Stitziel, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine and of genetics at WashU Medicine, has received the Harrington Discovery Institute 2025 Scholar-Innovator Award to support the development of breakthrough treatments for heart disease.