Newsroom Stories

Loretta J. Ross will be the featured speaker for “Reflecting on Reproductive Justice,” a three-day public symposium hosted Sept. 5-7 by WashU’s Reproductive Justice, Health, Rights working group in Arts & Sciences.

Architect Mimi Hoang, urban planner Toni Griffin and artist Josephine Halvorson are among the internationally renowned creative professionals who will discuss their work for the Sam Fox School’s fall Public Lecture Series.

The Black Rep will launch its 48th season with Sheldon Epps’ beloved musical revue “Blues in the Night.”

A civic dialogue event, The Longest Table, is returning to WashU this fall with a new location and a new topic of conversation. On Thursday, Sept. 5, the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement will welcome students, faculty and staff to Brookings Quadrangle to share dinner and to discuss the upcoming election.

In its first class since the U.S. Supreme Court banned race-conscious admissions, Washington University in St. Louis reports the percentage of first-year students who are from rural communities, low-income or the first in their families to attend college has slightly increased. However, WashU saw a 4 percentage-point drop in first-year students who identify as Black/African American, while the percentage of Asian, white and Hispanic students stayed relatively steady.

Andy Groves, a leading researcher in the development of the inner ear, will head the Department of Developmental Biology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis beginning in April.

The 26th annual Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series kicks off Sept. 6 with a lecture on reproductive justice by Kim Mutcherson of Rutgers University.

WashU Medicine experts in Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis (MS) find that MS patients are less likely to have amyloid plaques than adults without MS.

Biologists in Arts & Sciences have found new ways to encourage the plastic-producing power of purple microbes.

A collaboration of universities and industry, led by the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University, is embarking on a bold plan to transform manufacturing toward zero or negative emissions by converting carbon dioxide into environmentally friendly chemicals and products that create a circular economy.