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Several faculty members have been appointed to new leadership positions in the Office of the Provost at WashU, effective by July 1, Provost Mark West announced.

Celeste Karch was recognized for pioneering Alzheimer’s research, advancing stem cell, genomic and collaborative neurodegeneration studies.

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.

For the first time in program history, the WashU Bears have won the Learfield Directors’ Cup, presented by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics, the organization announced June 9. The Directors’ Cup is widely considered the ultimate measurement of overall athletic program success in collegiate sports.

Cancer cells are ravenous eaters. WashU’s Gary Patti is trying to turn their hunger against them.

Ravi Vij, MD, a national leader in the research and treatment of blood cancers, has been installed as the inaugural Jeffrey S. and Prue H. Gershman Distinguished Professor in the John T. Milliken Department of Medicine at WashU Medicine.

Julie Ritchey, research laboratory manager of the lab of John DiPersio, MD, in the John T. Milliken Department of Medicine at WashU Medicine, received the 2026 Gloria W. White Distinguished Service Award. For more than three decades, Richey has worked to advance research on stem cell therapies.

Tazeen Ali, an assistant professor of religion and politics at Washington University in St. Louis, says Thomas Jefferson’s Quran confronts us with the question of what the founders themselves knew they couldn’t avoid: Will the promises of 1776 stop at the edge of our own religion, or will they extend to Muslims and beyond?

Researchers at WashU Medicine have developed an experimental system that can read and interpret 3D images of the eye’s retina as well as other types of eye scans.

Researchers WashU devised a new high-tech method to generate an enzyme that can break down the misfolded proteins that cause neurodegenerative disease.