Campus & Community

This spring saw the graduation of the first cohort of the WashU Pledge, the bold scholarship initiative for Pell-eligible students from Missouri and southern Illinois set into motion by Chancellor Andrew Martin at his 2019 inauguration.

Shortly after Commencment, Chancellor Andrew Martin spent some time with Julia Blanchard, AB ’24, talking about what the WashU Pledge meant for her, her WashU Pledge cohort — and for a whole new generation of WashU students.

As incoming chair of the Alumni Board of Governors, Valerie Davisson aims to inspire WashU graduates to engage with and support their alma mater — and its students.

A WashU education helped prepare John W. Davis, AB ’74, for assignments in an international world of espionage.

Experiences with St. Louis organizations led alumna Samantha Searls to a career in advocating for immigrants.

Leah Rae Vandiver Czerniewski, a doctoral student in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University died after a long illness Tuesday, June 11, 2024, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. She was 34.

Ruth Levinsohn Siteman, a graduate and longtime benefactor of Washington University in St. Louis, died peacefully at home in St. Louis, surrounded by her family, Thursday, June 13, 2024. She was 92.

Yiannis Kantaros, an assistant professor at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University, has received a five-year $591,457 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation to address limitations to robot autonomy.

Brooklyn, N.Y.-based architect Adare Brown has been selected as winner of the 2023-24 James Harrison Steedman Memorial Fellowship in Architecture. Established in 1926, the biannual $75,000 prize, which supports research through international travel, is among the largest such fellowships in the United States.

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.