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Images from on and around the WashU campuses.

The path maize took to reach eastern North America has long been debated. A new study in the journal Cell, co-authored by Gayle Fritz in Arts & Sciences, provides clear evidence that maize traveled across the Great Plains from the Southwest.

Dylan Mack, a student at the McKelvey School of Engineering, was a finalist for the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, which funds graduate studies in the United Kingdom.

Researchers at Washington University are working to develop an anaerobic digestion process using cyanobacterium to grow food in space.

The Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research has announced that Alex Evers, MD, the Henry E. Mallinckrodt Professor of Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, will receive the foundation’s 2024 Mentoring Excellence in Research Award. 

Faculty, staff and students have access to national and local news publications such as The New York Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and St. Louis Business Journal through the university’s library system.

Sam Fox, a business and civic leader who was also among St. Louis’ most prominent philanthropists and WashU’s most loyal and generous alumni, died Dec. 2, surrounded by friends and family. He was 95.

Sean Joe, the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development at the Brown School, has been named a 2024-25 Institute for Economic Equity research fellow by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

The Taylor Family Center for Student Success, along with the Center for Career Engagement at WashU, are expanding the Professional Clothes Closet to offer more free business attire to students. The closet is accepting donations of professional clothing.

WashU researcher Deanna Barch was recognized by two national organizations for her work on schizophrenia and other mental health conditions.