Newsroom Stories

WashU Medicine researchers have been awarded a nearly $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to decode how gut bacteria turn hostile, leading to dangerous infections.

WashU will formally adopt the Okanagan Charter, reinforcing the university’s commitment to making health and well-being an integral part of campus culture and decision-making.

The United States imposed sweeping new sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) Oct. 9, following up on sanctions imposed last year. They are threatening academic freedom, limiting opportunities for law students and making it harder for scholars to engage with international legal institutions, WashU law professor Leila Sadat argues.

A well-known clock gene helps plants sense salt and respond to it, according to new research from biologist Xuehua Zhong in WashU Arts & Sciences. The findings could help scientists develop more resilient crops.

Economist David Spielman brings global expertise in food policy and agricultural innovation to Bursky Public Health, advancing research connecting food systems and health.

The funding will support a WashU Medicine collaboration with CRISPR Therapeutics and SynGenix, a WashU startup, to move a single-injection treatment to reverse joint damage into clinical trials.

A study in mice by WashU Medicine researchers advances efforts to shield infants from Klebsiella pneumoniae, a dangerous bacterium that causes severe bloodstream infections and is the leading killer of children globally.

Artificial intelligence could help counter election misinformation at the same speed that false narratives spread, according to new research from WashU and Caltech.

WashU Arts & Sciences will host its second annual Teaching Innovation Showcase Oct. 22. In this Q&A, three participating faculty — Michael Olson, B. Duygu Özpolat and Zhiling Zheng — discuss their projects and teaching philosophies.

Brett D. Wick, chair of the Department of Mathematics in Arts & Sciences, has been installed as the inaugural Robert G. and Maxine W. Scheibe Professor of Mathematics.