Campus & Community

The WashU community is invited to watch Chancellor Andrew D. Martin’s State of the University address online at 2 p.m. Feb. 25. A recording also will be available later.

Two WashU sophomores are among the 12 scholars chosen nationwide to participate in the Institute for Responsible Citizenship Washington Program, a highly selective initiative for talented Black male college students.  

Neuroscientist Juliet Mwirigi, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Anesthesiology at WashU Medicine, has been named a Hanna H. Gray Fellow by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Two WashU faculty members have been appointed to leadership posts supporting the university’s Digital Intelligence & Innovation Accelerator.

Two WashU faculty members will receive Outstanding St. Louis Scientist awards: battery engineer Peng Bai, at the McKelvey School of Engineering, and biologist Ram Dixit, in Arts & Sciences.

Images from on and around the WashU campuses.

A national organization that recognizes workplaces providing commuter benefits to employees recently named WashU among its 2025 Best Workplaces for Commuters.

Abram Van Engen, chair of the Department of English in Arts & Sciences, has been named the next director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics. Van Engen has published widely on religion and literature.

Carmon Colangelo, the Ralph J. Nagel Dean of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, will conclude his deanship effective June 30, 2026. Colangelo will continue to serve as WashU’s E. Desmond Lee Professor for Collaboration in the Arts. He will return to teaching, after a yearlong sabbatical, in fall 2027.

Leila Sadat, the James Carr Professor of International Criminal Law, has been awarded the American Society of International Law’s 2025 Goler T. Butcher Medal.