Campus & Community

The Beyond Boundaries program invites WashU juniors and seniors to apply to Creative Collaborations, which provides grants of up to $1,000 to students who work together to produce a creative capstone project such as a book, social enterprise or fashion line.

Matthew A. Cruz, a predoctoral scholar in biochemistry and molecular biophysics and in the laboratory of Gregory Bowman at the School of Medicine, received a three-year $95,910 fellowship award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

Weicong Huang and John Whitaker, both from the Master of Landscape Architecture program in the Sam Fox School, have won national honors from the American Society of Landscape Architects.

The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded James Fitzpatrick a $600,000 grant to purchase a cutting-edge optical microscope for the Washington University Center for Cellular Imaging, expanding super-resolution imaging to a broader range of wavelengths.

Jhullian Jamille Alston, a predoctoral trainee in biochemistry and molecular biophysics and in the laboratories of Alex Holehouse and Andrea Soranno at the School of Medicine, received a predoctoral-to-postdoctoral fellow transition award from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The seasonal flu vaccine is required for all Washington University employees, including faculty, staff and trainees, on the Danforth and Medical campuses by Nov. 19.

Meet five students randomly captured in an August photo at Francis Olympic Field. They possess different interests, enjoy different subjects and have different aspirations. Yet they all chose Washington University for the same reason: the people.

Meaghan Creed, assistant professor of anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine, received the 2021 Freedman Prize from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation. The prize recognizes exceptional basic research in mental illness.

Richard Loomis, professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, received a three-year $700,000 grant, with a collaborator at Marquette University, from the National Science Foundation to study highly energized molecules’ reaction pathways.