Campus & Community

Career Catalysts, a series about WashU interns, by WashU interns, profiles pre-law student Winston Mattson, a Gephardt Institute St. Louis Fellow and an intern at Seed St. Louis.

The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis is raising funds to create a practicum award honoring Jeremy T. Goldbach, a faculty member and nationally recognized scholar on LGBTQ+ mental health who died of cancer in June at age 42.

Registration is now open for the next WashU well-being initiative, Walktober, a six-week opportunity focused on fitness and wellness. The challenge begins Oct. 6.

Jeannie Kelly, MD, a renowned expert in the care of women with opiate use disorders during pregnancy, has been named the new director of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine & Ultrasound in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at WashU Medicine.

If you happened to be in New York City last weekend, perhaps you saw a Times Square billboard promoting a very WashU pastime: Student Life Games. There, smiling from the 55-by-31-foot digital display, were crossword creators and founders of the newspaper’s games page, recent graduate Alex Nickel and sophomore Rena Cohen. 

WashU students, faculty, staff and alumni are invited to break out their U-Passes on Thursday, Oct. 2, to compete in the annual College Transit Challenge, an annual celebration of public transportation sponsored by Citizens for Modern Transit.

Jessie Minton, vice chancellor for technology and chief information officer at WashU, received a prestigious award from the HMG Strategy Global Leadership Institute during the organization’s recent summit.

Members of the WashU community may nominate honorary degree candidates for the May 2027 Commencement. The deadline is Oct. 3.

Elizabeth Pollina, an assistant professor of developmental biology at WashU Medicine, has been recognized by the Vallee Foundation for innovative research in neuroscience.

Flu shots again will be available to WashU employees on the Danforth and Medical campuses this fall. Some employees may be required to receive the vaccine.