Newsroom Stories

Washington University in St. Louis faculty experts are available to discuss a variety of topics related to the election, politics and national and local issues.

The Department of Music in Arts & Sciences will present “(Re)Discovering the Musical Legacy of Julia Perry,” a symposium and concert exploring the legacy of the late modernist composer, Sept. 27 and 28.

Stephanie Kurtzman of WashU’s Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement explains how schools are preparing for the upcoming election and whether campus protests will impact student voting.

Opeolu Adeoye, MD, head of emergency medicine at WashU Medicine, led a national clinical trial that found two anti-coagulant medications are ineffective at improving post-treatment outcomes for stroke patients.

WashU Medicine researchers have designed, in mice, an approach to minimizing the damage from a spinal cord injury through the use of engineered immune cells.

WashU has launched a new partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri to support high school students in the organization’s Big Futures college readiness initiative.

Researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering are the first to quantify the effect of dark brown carbon on snow melt.

The Board of Trustees of Washington University in St. Louis is establishing an ad hoc committee to review university policies and guidelines governing on-campus protests and demonstrations. Emeritus Trustee William B. Pollard III is chair of the committee.

The WashU Venture Network Follow-on Investments is a joint effort between WashU’s Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the “In St. Louis, For St. Louis” initiative.

WashU earth scientists in Arts & Sciences are mapping Earth’s interior and analyzing lava rocks from a volcanic hotspot near the islands of Samoa.