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Business schools must study their markets carefully to determine how they can push themselves in wholly new directions. Once they realize where they want to go, they’ll need to develop strong relationships with a range of unlikely allies—not just Fortune 500 companies, but startups, nonprofits, foundations, governments, high schools, and other business schools heading down similar paths.

Jennifer Yu, MD, a resident in general surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital, has received a 2018 Outstanding Resident Teacher Award from the Association for Surgical Education.

Question: How many Washington University student-athletes have become NCAA individual champions?

Rosalind Early, associate editor for Washington magazine, the universitywide alumni publication, has been named a “Rising Leader of Color” by the Theatre Communications Group.

Marc Moon, MD, chief of the Section of Cardiac Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named vice president of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. He was elected this spring during the association’s annual meeting.

Are these calls for shared humanity likely to be heard — and shared — by white America? My own and other research suggest that the answer is no.

My colleagues and I in the lab of Gautam Dantas have not only discovered how bacteria are able to eat the drugs that are supposed to kill them, but how this can be useful to people as well.

Nancy L. Bartlett, MD, the Koman Chair in Medical Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named a 2018 Legacy Leadership Award honoree by the Gateway Chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

At the 2018 Global Spine Congress meeting held in Singapore in May, Munish Gupta, MD, and co-authors from the Fox Pediatric Spinal Deformity Study (including Washington University Orthopedics’ Michael P. Kelly, MD, and research coordinator Brenda Sides) received an award for best e-poster. 

Sandor Kovacs, MD, PhD, professor of medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, recently received an honorary degree from Lund University in Sweden.