Newsroom Stories

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.

The biomarker test, called PrecivityAD2, was developed from technology invented at WashU Medicine by Randall J. Bateman, MD, and David M. Holtzman, MD.

For low-income older adults, where they live may affect how long they live, according to new research from Washington University in St. Louis.

From longer lives to eroding institutional trust, powerful forces are converging in ways that demand new approaches to protecting human health.

WashU Continuing & Professional Studies students mapped collision patterns and the city’s busiest corridors — work that supports Trailnet’s mission to make St. Louis streets safer and more accessible for pedestrians, cyclists, transit riders and drivers.

Advances in medical imaging and artificial intelligence have revolutionized many aspects of medical practice, but it can be hard to know if a given measurement tool works as intended. A technique developed by WashU researchers can be used to assess the reliability of quantitative imaging tools.