Campus & Community

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.

Dorothy, a publishing project — the independent book publisher co-founded by Danielle Dutton and Martin Riker — has entered into a sales and distribution agreement with the New York Review of Books that will amplify its book promotion and marketing efforts. Dutton, associate professor of English, and Riker, senior lecturer in English, both in Arts & Sciences at Washington University […]

BJC HealthCare soon will break ground on a 16-story inpatient hospital tower at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. The new tower is an important component of BJC’s Campus Renewal, a long-term vision to transform the Medical Campus to improve the experiences of patients and families.

Four researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have been awarded “high-risk, high-reward” grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The grant program aims to inspire scientific discovery by providing support for highly innovative research. The grant recipients are (from left) Linda J. Richards; Brian J. Laidlaw, Anthony W. Orvedahl and Leonid Shmuylovich.

The Washington University community gathered at Graham Chapel Oct. 2 to honor the legacy of Chancellor Emeritus William H. Danforth, MD, a leader who transformed the university, the region and the lives of countless students, patients, faculty and civic leaders. 

McKelvey School of Engineering graduate student Garrett Roell has been accepted into the Office of Science Graduate Student Research program, a prestigious research opportunity funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.

Alex Holehouse, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the School of Medicine, along with researchers at the University of California, Merced, and the University of Wyoming, received a four-year $992,485 grant from the National Science Foundation through the new “Integrative Research in Biology” program.