The Department of Music in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis will host six performances by internationally renowned performers as part of the 2026 Great Artists Series.
Physicists in Arts & Sciences have created a new phase of matter in the center of a diamond. They created a new form of time crystal called a discrete-time quasicrystal. Such states could be useful for high-precision sensing and advanced signal processing.
Researchers at WashU Medicine have found a way to target the vessels that drain waste from the brain. Rejuvenating those vessels could open the door to new therapies to prevent cognitive decline.
A multidisciplinary team led by chemist Timothy Wencewicz in Arts & Sciences repurposed an antimalarial drug in the fight against antibiotic resistance.
A clinical trial among people destined to develop early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and led by WashU Medicine researchers shows eliminating amyloid from the brain may prevent cognitive symptoms.
“¿Te puedo contar algo?”, an evening-length concert featuring new and original works by MFA candidates Tess Angelica Losada-Tindall and Lourdes del Mar Santiago Lebrón in Arts & Sciences, will explore the nature, power and necessity of grief March 21 and 22 in WashU’s Edison Theatre.
Jessica Backman-Levy (left), at the Brown School, and Beryne Odeny, MD, PhD, at the School of Medicine, have been selected to participate in a yearlong program aimed at advancing women into senior leadership positions in global health.
