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Members of the university community are invited to offer their ideas and suggestions to help inform the search for Washington University’s next provost. Visit Chancellor Martin’s website to learn more and take a brief survey.

Members of the Washington University in St. Louis community are invited to host  Washington University students in their homes for casual dinner and conversation through the Home Plate program.

An experienced attorney, relative to a first-timer, increases the likelihood of winning a case by 14 percentage points and of capturing a justice’s vote by 11 percentage points.

Question: What is the oldest residential college on the South 40?

Interim Provost Marion Crain addressed the Class of 2023 at Convocation. Read her remarks.

Researchers in the laboratory of Meredith Jackrel, assistant professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, discovered that proteins implicated in Ewing’s sarcoma and liposarcoma can be dissolved by protein disaggregases, a finding that could be used to combat disease. The new research is published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Read more about […]

Senior Chibueze Agwu, a philosophy-neuroscience-psychology major in Arts & Sciences and a residential advisor, gave the student address to the Class of 2023 at Convocation. Read his remarks.

Chancellor Andrew D. Martin addressed the Class of 2023 at Convocation. “We chose you because we saw something about you that goes way beyond your academic achievements, your test scores or your impressive extracurricular resume,” he said. Read his full remarks. 

Imagine if St. Louis and Detroit counted progress in some other way than number of vacant buildings demolished and number of downtown jobs added this year.

Eric Galburt, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the School of Medicine, received a four-year, nearly $1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences for his research titled “Kinetic regulation of mycobacterial transcription.”