Newsroom Stories

As part of ongoing efforts to prioritize its role and impact in St. Louis, Washington University in St. Louis for the first time will present the free Twilight Thursdays concert series in May at the Missouri History Museum.

“Retina Burn” is an annual concert designed to showcase the skills that student lighting designers have learned during their studies in the Performing Arts Department. This year’s event will return April 25 to Edison Theatre.

Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis contributed to a national study that identifies how gentrified parts of a city have notably more urban wildlife than ungentrified parts of the same city.

The ThurtenE Carnival at Washington University has been canceled for Sunday, April 21 due to crowd safety concerns.

A microbiome-directed food developed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is now being evaluated in major randomized controlled trials. The food is designed to nurture beneficial gut microbes and treat childhood malnutrition.

To protect migrating birds passing through the St. Louis region in late April and May, Washington University in St. Louis is partnering with the Lights Out Heartland initiative to curb light pollution.

Ning Zhang, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University, one of three winners of the FTC’s Voice Cloning Challenge, talks about the technology he created.

What can be done when one threatened animal kills another? Researchers in Arts & Sciences confronted this difficult reality when they witnessed attacks on critically endangered lemurs by another vulnerable species, a carnivore called a fosa.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have received a $6.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a gene therapy that would modify the immune system’s B cells to spur them to produce broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV.

Nine faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis are among the 502 new fellows selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the most distinct honors in the scientific community.