Campus & Community

Four students will serve as delegates to the WashU Board of Trustees for the 2026-27 academic year. Student delegates serve as non-voting participants in board meetings for a one-year term, providing a student perspective. 

Get ready for autumn with WashU’s well-being challenge, a six-week opportunity to embrace the beauty of the season. Track your activity, build connections and participate as a team. Eligible employees can register online now.

Provost Mark D. West has appointed a 13-member search committee to identify candidates for the position of dean of the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.

The U.S. flag over Brookings Hall will be lowered to half-staff Friday, Sept. 11, as the university pauses to remember the lives lost 25 years ago in the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Mark R. Rank, WashU’s Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare, is a winner of the NYC Big Book Award in the sociology category for his book “The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us.”

Images from on and around the WashU campuses.

WashU has built an athletic program that prioritizes development of the student first, and the athlete second.

Ronald Krieger, AB ’59, shares a vivid memory of meeting composer Aaron Copland at WashU in 1958.

How a bit of moxie and a whole lot of heart jump-started the WashU women’s soccer program.

Launched in 2007, WashU’s Alberti Program offers young people a hands-on introduction to architecture, a field rarely included in the K-12 curriculum. Students ask the same questions, use the same tools and build the same models as real-life architects.