Campus & Community

Jeffrey I. Gordon, MD, the Dr. Robert J. Glaser Distinguished University Professor at WashU Medicine, co-leads a team that developed a therapeutic food designed to treat childhood malnutrition. The food was named one of Time Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2025.

In an effort to support neighbors in need, the WashU Community Engagement Office is hosting a universitywide food drive through Dec. 20.

Catherine E. Lang, a leading researcher in stroke recovery and rehabilitation in the WashU Medicine Program in Physical Therapy, has been installed as the inaugural Barbara J. Norton Professor of Physical Therapy.

Li Yang, the Albert Gordon Hill Professor of Physics at WashU, has been named a 2025 fellow of the American Physical Society.

Benefits open enrollment is underway and will end Nov. 14. WashU employees should select, update or enroll in health insurance and other benefits for the 2026 calendar year.

Led by certified career coaches, the Center for Career Engagement’s career communities help WashU students discover the broad range of careers that match their values, talents and interests. Outreach starts from the moment students arrive on campus and continues long after graduation.

As study-abroad students at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), WashU seniors Marielle Morrow and Cole Bernstein wrote, directed and edited “A Bird in the Field.” The movie screens at the St. Louis International Film Festival Nov. 15.

The U.S. and university flags over Brookings Hall are lowered to half-staff in memory of former Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney died Nov. 3 at age 84.

Kenneth (Ken) Franklin Kelton, the Arthur Holly Compton Professor Emeritus of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis, has died following complications from lymphoma treatments. He was 71.

Beginning Wednesday, Nov. 5, WashU Information Technology is implementing a 1 TB storage quota on all WashU Box accounts and enforcing the current 1 TB quota on all OneDrive for Business accounts, which include Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams.