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Global talent, proud advocate

Carrie Johnson sees education as a 'game changer for all.' (Photo: Max Morse)

As an architect and as co-chair of Make Way: Our Student Initiative, Carrie Johnson seeks to construct places of belonging.

St. Louis Region

Planting and cultivating seeds through connection

Diana Parra Perez works with St. Louis-area organizations including Rustic Roots Sanctuary, an urban farm founded by Janett Lewis, to promote community health solutions. Perez's pursuit of food justice and nutrition sovereignty coincides with the farm's stated purpose of sustainably producing food for people in the Spanish Lake community. (Photo: Kevin Roberts)

In her work with local organizations to promote health and wellness in the St. Louis region, Diana Parra Perez sees the power of solidarity.

Engineering

Women deserve better health care. Engineers can help.

Postdoctoral fellow Samantha Zambuto uses biomaterials to create models of reproductive tissues, including the uterus, vagina and placenta. (Photo: Whitney Curtis)

Pressure. Contraction. Pushing. Rupture. For many, these words point to the experience of labor and childbirth. For Michelle Oyen, something else also comes to mind. “These are all very clearly engineering words that have to do with physical forces,” says Oyen, associate professor of biomedical engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering. “We’ve been treating […]

Neuroscience & Memory

Moment of promise

On Jan. 22, Ryan Redshaw, who was diagnosed with inherited Alzheimer’s last summer, became a participant in the Tau NexGen clinical trial. Over two days, he received a series of scans, including a PET imaging scan that uses an imaging agent to show the disease’s progression. (Photo: Matt Miller/Washington University School of Medicine)

Washington University is known the world over for being a leader in neuroscience research. And the university underscored its commitment to the neurosciences by building an 11-story hub on the Medical Campus that enables researchers to work more collaboratively and creatively. The goal: to accelerate the translation of science into treatments to help those living with neurodegenerative diseases.

Neuroscience & Memory

Navigate the neurosciences at WashU Medicine

Washington University underscored its commitment to the neurosciences by building an 11-story hub on the Medical Campus — dedicated as the Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building Jan. 18 — that enables researchers to work more collaboratively and creatively. (Photo: Matt Miller/Washington University School of Medicine)

Explore the extensive scope of neuroscience research ongoing at WashU Medicine.

Arts & Culture

Drawn in

Two WashU programs are preparing students for writing and illustrating children’s books: the Communication Design program at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and the Children’s Studies minor in Arts & Sciences.

WashU alumni are writing and illustrating the books you wish you could have read as a kid — increasing diversity one picture book at a time.

Medicine & Health

Next-gen testing

Erica Barnell, MD/PhD ’23, co-founded Geneoscopy, a health care startup that is developing gastrointestinal diagnostics. The company’s lead diagnostic is a noninvasive test to detect colorectal cancer. (Photo: Whitney Curtis/Washington University)

Erica Barnell co-founded the life sciences company Geneoscopy to develop innovative diagnostics and transform gastrointestinal health.

Science & Technology

Harnessing modern data, transforming society

Through the new Digital Transformation initiative, Washington University is tackling head-on the challenges and opportunities of a data-driven society.

Neuroscience & Memory

The next era of neuroscience research

Chancellor Andrew Martin (center) celebrates the dedication of the Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building after cutting the ribbon with WashU leaders and friends, including Jeffrey T. Fort and Fort’s sister, Liz Dorr (both right of Chancellor Martin), Jan. 18. (Photo: Matt Miller)

WashU dedicates the new Jeffrey T. Fort Neuroscience Research Building.

Campus & Community

Rat tales

More than two decades since its closure, the Rathskeller, located in the basement of Umrath Hall, remains gone but not forgotten.