Newsroom Stories

WashU’s Prevention Research Center delivered its Evidence-Based Public Health training in Puerto Rico, strengthening local health workforce capacity to tackle chronic disease and limited resources.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis will provide cameras for the world’s largest high-energy gamma-ray observatory with a nearly $4 million federal grant.

Led by members of the women’s tennis team, the WashU chapter of Second Serves hosts tennis clinics for the local community and provides donated rackets and covers, shoes and tennis bags for children.

WashU Medicine researchers found that immune cells that dispose of the body’s cellular debris can protect insulin-producing cells and prevent Type 1 diabetes in mice.

Funding from the National Science Foundation will enable researchers across many disciplines at Washington University in St. Louis to advance ongoing research into the damaging health effects of repeated flooding in Metro East communities.

Neuroscientists, clinicians and engineers at Washington University in St. Louis seek to develop personalized medicine strategies for refractory depression that would tailor drug dosage based on a patient’s age, genetics, health conditions, brain dynamics and neural circuits.

Kim and Tim Eberlein, MD, were recently honored with the 2025 Jane and Whitney Harris St. Louis Community Service Award. The honor recognizes couples who contribute to the betterment of the greater St. Louis community.

Career Catalysts, a series about WashU interns, by WashU interns, profiles pre-law student Winston Mattson, a Gephardt Institute St. Louis Fellow and an intern at Seed St. Louis.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis plans to investigate the neural mechanisms behind various controls of transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation in generating different leg movements with a five-year, nearly $3 million grant the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Recent research from Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis indicates that people can increase their potential for experiencing work-related epiphanies by engaging in a playful type of mind wandering known as “problem-solving daydreaming.”