Newsroom Stories

WashU will assess its partnerships, teaching, research and service to the community in a quest to earn the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement. A kickoff event is scheduled for Oct. 21 as part of WashU’s inaugural Community Engagement Week.

A new book, “Edward E. Boccia: Painter of Nightmares and Dreams,” revisits the life and work of the St. Louis painter, who taught at WashU from 1951 to 1986.

A WashU Medicine radiologist is on a mission to expand a minimally invasive procedure called cryoablation as a safe option for patients.

Students with stronger reading skills are better able to spot misinformation online — and that may be especially important for teenagers from disadvantaged backgrounds, according to a new study from the Brown School.

WashU Leadership Week, hosted by the Bauer Leaders Academy, offers workshops and panel discussions for students, faculty and staff. Programming includes leadership development sessions for faculty and staff plus the annual “She Leads” Symposium.

McKelvey Engineering researchers Sang-Hoon Bae and Lan Yang collaborated to establish a framework for heterogeneous integrated photonic chips, enabling multiple functions on a single chip with greater freedom to combine materials and design devices.

First-year WashU Medicine MD and MD/PhD students received their white coats at a ceremony Oct. 2. Other ceremonies recognized incoming students studying physical therapy, occupational therapy and audiology.

Research from the WashU Brown School’s Center for Social Development helped lay the groundwork for a major change to the federal government’s new Trump Accounts program: automatic account creation for eligible children, which the administration announced Sept. 29.

Amazon’s introduction of smart glasses for its delivery drivers raises significant questions about privacy, workplace surveillance and the normalization of continuously recording technology, says WashU Law professor Neil Richards.

Philip R. O. Payne, the inaugural chief health AI officer for WashU Medicine and BJC Health, helps explain what artificial intelligence can and can’t do in healthcare and why trust, training and human judgment remain essential.