Campus & Community

Images from on and around the WashU campuses.

The McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis has announced its recipients for the 2025 alumni awards.

In recent months, WashU has supported several organizations focused on outdoor recreation as part of its “In St. Louis, For St. Louis” initiative.

The Office of Human Resources is holding webinars this week for WashU employees who want to learn more about the child tuition assistance program. One-hour online sessions will take place Tuesday-Thursday, May 6-8.

Student Life, WashU’s independent student newspaper, won 38 Missouri College Media Association Awards — including Best Overall Newspaper. 

WashU has launched an ambitious fundraising and engagement campaign to provide transformative solutions to society’s greatest challenges and to create new opportunities for students. With You: The WashU Campaign will focus on four areas of impact: healthier lives, greater access, flourishing communities and future-ready leaders.

Philanthropists Nancy Kranzberg and Ken Kranzberg received the 2025 Dean’s Medal from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts April 10 as part of the school’s annual Awards for Distinction ceremony. Also recognized during the ceremony were six outstanding alumni in art, architecture and design.

Several distinguished speakers, faculty members and student leaders will take part in Commencement recognition ceremonies for Class of 2025 graduates and their families and guests May 9-12 at WashU.

“Adam Pendleton: To Divide By,” an exhibition catalog published by WashU’s Kemper Art Museum, has been named best monograph of 2024 by the Midwest Art History Society.

Two WashU faculty are among nearly 250 newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies. They are physicist Carl Bender, in Arts & Sciences, and immunologist Marco Colonna, at the School of Medicine.