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WashU juniors Margo Crothers and Vikram Karra have received the Barry Goldwater Scholarship, a prestigious award that honors students who conduct research in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering. 

The Jewish Federation of St. Louis has renamed its annual professional leadership achievement award in honor of Barry Rosenberg, a professor of practice at the WashU Brown School.

Stephanie McNally, associate secretary to the WashU Board of Trustees, is the recipient of the prestigious 2026 Distinguished Board Professional Award from the Association of Governing Boards for exceptional contributions to governance excellence and board engagement in higher education.

A multi-institutional team, including Chongjie Zhang at WashU McKelvey Engineering, developed a new method that enables robots to achieve intentions shown by their peers.

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Researchers in the McKelvey School of Engineering at WashU have developed a new method to understand information in complex systems, which can be applied toward development of unmanned aerial vehicles.

The National Academy of Inventors has once again named WashU to its Top 100 U.S. Universities Granted Utility Patents List. 

WashU Arts & Sciences biologists Toby Pennington and Jonathan Myers contributed to an ambitious study on South America’s tropical forests, revealing important shifts in biodiversity.

Sarah Ackerman, at WashU Medicine, has been named a winner of the Maximizing Innovation in Neuroscience Discovery Prize by the Pershing Square Foundation. 

University Services at WashU has announced updates for faculty, staff and students heading into the 2026–27 academic year. Topics include parking permits, WashU ID cards, supply chain management and more.