Newsroom Stories

Anna Cunningham, WashU’s assistant director of teaching innovation, helps faculty and students use artificial intelligence (AI) thoughtfully and ethically. She emphasizes that good teaching methods should guide AI use, not replace it.

The Brown School’s Vanessa Fabbre discusses the field of queer gerontology and why supporting the researchers who study LGBTQ+ aging is an important part of the work.

The FTC’s deals with major drug middlemen may not do enough to lower what patients and employers pay for prescription drugs, said WashU Law’s Rachel Sachs.

Researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering developed a process to use waste materials in the production of carbon fiber, a key step to more sustainable manufacturing and stronger material design.

September is Suicide Prevention Month, and WashU expert Ryan Lindsay is emphasizing a simple message: You don’t have to be a mental health professional to help someone who may be struggling.

A new Transcend Initiative seeks to address and fight life-threatening mycobacterial infections.

WashU will celebrate its first Learfield Directors’ Cup with a festival and a women’s soccer game on Wednesday, Sept. 23. Athletic Director Anthony Azama says the honor reflects the competitive spirit of WashU student athletes.

WashU Medicine researchers found that bacteria-infecting viruses and bacterial antibiotic resistance genes in the gut microbiomes of premature babies play an important role in necrotizing enterocolitis, a sudden and often fatal intestinal illness.

Three new plays by Chinonso Anyanwu, Anna Schwartz and Frauke Thielecke will receive world premiere staged readings Sept. 19 and 20 as part of the 2026 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival.

Washington University in St. Louis will retire the Robert J. Terry Lecture and rename the Robert J. Terry Professorship, following approval by the Board of Trustees. The action follows a recommendation from the university’s Naming Review Board and concludes a yearlong review.