Newsroom Stories

Bruce D. Levy, MD, a highly regarded leader in academic medicine and an accomplished physician-scientist, has been named executive vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He begins his new role July 1, announced Chancellor Andrew D. Martin.

Shrinking public health funding, workforce shortages and misinformation are straining systems. A WashU forum explores how leaders can safeguard preparedness and sustain population health systems.

A WashU analysis highlights how geography, employment and Medicaid changes shape health insurance access across Missouri communities.

David Wang, an acclaimed microbiologist and virologist at WashU Medicine, is known for his work identifying new viruses and understanding their roles in human diseases.

A new WashU Law report examining environmental racism in St. Louis offers updated data and a series of policy recommendations aimed at addressing longstanding disparities in health, housing and environmental conditions across the region.

The African Film Festival will celebrate its 20th anniversary with award-winning films from South Africa, Morocco, Cape Verde, Sudan and other nations from March 27-29 in WashU’s Brown Hall. Admission is free.

The phrase “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” is doubly true for SWARM, the WashU Robotics Club team on the cutting edge of modular robotics. The team’s 15 members are working to create robots that can come together or break apart to accomplish difficult or dangerous tasks. 

A leading employer and investor in the St. Louis region, WashU contributed $9.8 billion to the local economy in fiscal year 2025, which ended in June. WashU also brought more than $1 billion in external research dollars to the region, money that has led to significant advances in medicine, technology and public health as well as new jobs and businesses in the region.

WashU is an inaugural member of Third Coast Foundry, a new initiative designed to strengthen the combined presence of Midwestern universities in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Super-resolution functional photoacoustic microscopy, a new technique developed at WashU, allows researchers to image blood flow and oxygenation at single-cell resolution. The research could provide insight into microvascular health and disease, such as stroke, vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.