Campus & Community

WashU’s Institute for School Partnership is working with two underperforming elementary schools in St. Louis to develop creative teacher-leaders, and the results show marked improvement in student performance.

University College is now the School of Continuing & Professional Studies (CAPS). The new name reflects the university’s commitment to serve the needs of St. Louis’ adult learners of all ages and backgrounds.

The Career Center has announced the inaugural cohort of the Pershing Fellowship in Nonprofit Leadership, an innovative internship program that connects rising juniors and seniors to leading nonprofit and community organizations. The university will provide fellows a competitive $10,000 stipend.

Students in the “Philanthropy Lab” course granted $40,000 to four local nonprofit groups. The course, offered by Arts & Sciences in partnership with the Gephardt Institute, gives students a theoretical and practical understanding of philanthropy today. 

Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the School of Medicine is launching a prostate cancer screening initiative along with an educational campaign in the St. Louis region to address racial disparities in prostate cancer.

The students represent public, private and charter schools from across the region. As College Prep scholars, they will study in Washington University laboratories and studios, attend classes led by university faculty and learn the skills needed to thrive in college. Rising sophomores and juniors will attend two weeks of activities on campus; rising seniors will attend classes for three weeks while living in campus residential halls.

Meet 12 members of the Washington University in St. Louis 2023 graduating class who will continue their educations or start their careers in St. Louis. Some stay because St. Louis is home; others stay because St. Louis became home.

Livi Logan-Wood is about to graduate with dual master’s degrees in business administration from Olin Business School and social work from the Brown School. She will work at World Wide Technology.

Chenyue Wang wasn’t familiar with St. Louis before arriving here for graduate school. But over the last two years, the Beijing native has come to appreciate the city’s creative opportunities, quality of life and plentiful greenspace.

Data and running. That’s what Joseph Silagi, a senior majoring in political science and in mathematics and computer science in Arts & Sciences, is passionate about. This fall, Silagi will start work as a consultant for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in St. Louis.