Newsroom Stories

At the end of high school, twins Akhil and Rohith Kesaraju were ready to go their own ways. Then they visited Washington University, and everything changed. Now, preparing to graduate, the Kesaraju twins have grown both apart and together on parallel paths of service and research.

Alivia Kaplan founded Kuleana Consulting, a global consulting company that connects students with businesses across the globe. She is set to earn a bachelor’s degree in economics and strategy from Olin Business School on May 20.

The Washington University Board of Trustees elected a new chair along with several new members at its spring meeting May 6, announced Chancellor Andrew D. Martin.

Brett Drake, an expert on child welfare, has been installed as the inaugural Professor of Data Science for the Social Good in Practice at the Brown School.

Fred Ssewamala, the William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor at the Brown School, along with colleagues, has received $5.7 million in two separate grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his work in sub-Saharan Africa.

Daniel E. Goldberg, MD, PhD, a renowned researcher in molecular parasitology at Washington University School of Medicine, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Kater Murch, professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, helped an Argonne Laboratory team with their effort to create a new form of qubit, reported in a recent Nature paper. This system shows great promise to be developed into ideal building blocks for future quantum computers.

A new grant awarded to School of Medicine researchers will fund research investigating the role of the immune system in heart failure. Finding ways to harness beneficial immune cells could lead to new therapies that encourage the heart to heal after injuries.

Students in the “Gender and Education” spring course are examining issues surrounding gender and sexuality in education, like representation in curriculum and experiences of LGBTQ students and teachers, which have taken on new urgency given the current political climate.

A study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard suggests that women who get recurrent urinary tract infections may be caught in a vicious cycle in which antibiotics given to eradicate one infection predispose them to develop another.