Newsroom Stories

The WashU community is encouraged to support the 2026 United Way of Greater St. Louis annual campaign. Launching Oct. 5, the campaign will raise funds to support over 150 local nonprofits and more than 1 million people in the 16-county region. 

Presented by the WashU John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics. “The Practice of Citizenship” series invites participants to think critically about what it means to be a citizen.

WashU has launched free public tours of its nationally recognized arboretum, showcasing iconic trees, fall colors and campus biodiversity. WashU is among the rare college campuses to host a Level III arboretum and botanic garden.

A grant to WashU Medicine researchers will fund the study of how inflammation drives myeloproliferative neoplasms, a group of blood cancers at high risk of progressing to acute myeloid leukemia.

WashU plant scientist Ben Mansfeld is studying the genome of wild crabapples to find helpful traits to develop in domestic apple varieties.

With the advent of Google AI Overviews, Google has unprecedented editorial control over what users read and know, according to Jacob Montgomery, a WashU Arts & Sciences political scientist.

In a mouse study, WashU Medicine researchers show that a drug injected into the body can reduce damage caused by a protein called tau, which accumulates in the brain in Alzheimer’s and related neurological diseases.

A study led by WashU Medicine researchers found that near-daily cannabis users with drug-resistant epilepsy had over twice as many convulsive seizures as nonusers, and they became resistant to antiseizure medications faster.

Biomedical engineers at WashU McKelvey Engineering developed an additive manufacturing method using a 3D printer that builds bioelectronic materials from collagen and a polymer that can carry electrical signals, work that could ultimately improve the function of medical implants.

Adults with a history of cancer are less likely to be physically active than those without a cancer history, finds a new study from Washington University in St. Louis.