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Ten teachers from across the St. Louis region will partner with WashU faculty for the 2026 Summer Teacher Researcher Program. Administered by the university’s Institute for School Partnership (ISP), the program provides teachers an opportunity to participate in faculty research and develop lessons for their classrooms.

Images from on and around the WashU campuses.

Matthew Allen, a senior lecturer at the WashU Sam Fox School, co-organized “Biographies of the Digital,” a conference for the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. WashU’s Andrew Witt was among the presenters.

At the WashU Office of Technology Management’s annual Celebration of Inventors, WashU Medicine researchers Graham Colditz and Shu (Joy) Jiang were honored for developing and commercializing a technology to predict breast cancer risk.

Katherine Kirchdorfer, an undergraduate student in WashU Arts & Sciences, has been selected as a 2026-27 Lafayette Fellow by Villa Albertine, The French Institute for Culture and Education.

Live Near Your Work, WashU’s innovative forgivable home loan program, is expanding its footprint of eligible neighborhoods to include downtown and portions of south St. Louis, north St. Louis and north St. Louis County. 

Researchers at the WashU Brown School have received a $311,796 grant from the Brady Education Foundation to continue a landmark 18-year study examining how early asset-building policies influence children’s educational success.

Nathan Jacobs, a computer scientist at WashU McKelvey Engineering, and collaborators plan to develop a geospatial artificial intelligence tool to find early signs of instability in crop production.

The WashU Brown School’s Social System Design Lab has received a $75,000 Spencer Foundation grant to study pathways from high school to careers in St. Louis. 

Four physician-scientists have been selected as Dean’s Scholars. The WashU Medicine program supports outstanding early-career faculty at WashU Medicine who bridge the gap between research and clinical care.