Newsroom Stories

WashU boosted admissions outreach, enrolled 1,942 students in the Class of 2030 and is adding early action for the 2031 class. Leaders highlight strong international interest, growing student focus on AI and career outcomes and an upcoming review of the university’s test-optional policy.

WashU Medicine researchers led a clinical trial testing three diets with different proportions of fat and carbohydrates and found all of them improved metabolic health, but a ketogenic plan had additional benefits for liver health and blood sugar control.

Horacio Coppola and Grete Stern are pivotal figures in the art of 20th century Argentina. Beginning Sept. 9, the WashU Kemper Art Museum will explore their legacy as part of “Buenos Aires Modern, 1935–1950,” the first U.S. exhibition to examine how local, exile and immigrant artists adopted and transformed the aesthetics of international modernism.

WashU researchers are working on ways to use machine learning to not just make predictions about potential chemical compounds but also to model out the synthesis of those materials.

More than a dozen nationally and internationally known artists, architects, designers and scholars will discuss their work as part of the Sam Fox School’s fall Public Lecture Series.

A WashU tradition, the Longest Table invites students to build connections, enjoy a meal and engage in meaningful conversations about the community and civic issues that matter to them most.

Scheduled to launch Aug. 30, scientists will use Roman to settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets and astrophysics. WashU plays a key role in four new projects.

Jennifer Layden of Bursky Public Health explains conflicting childhood vaccine guidance, drawing on her experience leading state outbreak responses and national vaccination efforts at the CDC.

New research from WashU Olin Business finds popular installment payment plans are changing not only how consumers pay, but also the prices they face and the way retailers manage their businesses.

New research from the lab of WashU McKelvey Engineering’s Srikanth Singamaneni shows the early success of a microneedle patch that can be applied on the skin to capture biomarkers of kidney injury. It may one day support home or point-of-care monitoring.