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Gary Wihl, the Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Humanities, died July 17 in Clayton, Mo., after battling Parkinson’s disease. He was 72. Wihl served as dean of Arts & Sciences from 2009 to 2012.

A team led by WashU Medicine radiology associate professor Shuo Wang has identified neurons that appear to play a key role in our ability to recognize people.

The WashU Arboretum, home to more than 7,000 trees, has received a national sustainability honor.

Building on strong early outcomes, WashU has been awarded a $1.1 million four-year grant to extend its participation in the Kessler Scholars Collaborative and deepen its work to assure opportunity and success outcomes for first-generation, limited-income college students. 

The CDC Foundation has recognized Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, the Margaret C. Ryan Dean of the WashU School of Public Health, for advancing the understanding of factors that shape health.

Lu Xu, an engineer at Washington University in St. Louis, has won the 2025 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environmental Division Early Career Award.

Metro Transit has begun to add new fencing, fare gates and security cameras to the University City-Big Bend and Skinker MetroLink stations near the WashU Danforth Campus. Elevators will be unavailable for about three weeks.

Amanda Pinski, a doctoral student in the Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has been honored for an essay titled “Are You Listening?”

Three Brown School faculty members have completed specialized training designed to help social workers and nurse educators integrate psychedelic-assisted therapy into academic curricula.

WashU Medicine researchers have identified biomarkers of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and frontotemporal dementia from blood plasma, suggesting new therapeutic avenues.