Campus & Community

Ten teachers from across the St. Louis region will partner with WashU faculty for the 2026 Summer Teacher Researcher Program. Administered by the university’s Institute for School Partnership (ISP), the program provides teachers an opportunity to participate in faculty research and develop lessons for their classrooms.

Live Near Your Work, WashU’s innovative forgivable home loan program, is expanding its footprint of eligible neighborhoods to include downtown and portions of south St. Louis, north St. Louis and north St. Louis County. 

The WashU Brown School’s Social System Design Lab has received a $75,000 Spencer Foundation grant to study pathways from high school to careers in St. Louis. 

Washington University in St. Louis is formally partnering with St. Louis to expand environmental monitoring and public health research in city neighborhoods affected by the devastating May 16, 2025, tornado.

WashU Night at the Ballpark will be Aug. 30, when the Cardinals face the Pittsburgh Pirates. Each ticket will include a hot dog and soda at the game.

WashU Serves has released volunteer dates and locations for Service Saturdays through 2026. These community volunteer days are open to WashU faculty, staff, students, alumni and all other community members.

The AT&T Digital Navigation Program, a free program offered through the WashU Institute for School Partnership, helped about 50 local educators learn how to use the right tools the right way.

The Riverfront Times print editions from 1977–2013 are now available to researchers at WashU Libraries’ Department of Special Collections. WashU curators undertook the project to ensure a valuable local history resource is preserved and usable by researchers.

WashU and Sodexo teamed up to make it easy for students to donate extra meal points to help feed children in the St. Louis area.

In August, global robotics competition First Lego League challenged children to design a robot to help archaeologists. The task demands skills in engineering, design and, first and foremost, archaeology. Enter WashU environmental archaeologist Ilaria Patania, who helped dozens of middle school competitors.