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Campus & Community

Full circle

Judge Washington with his mother, Ava.
Some 43 years after being unable to attend his Commencement, the Hon. Judge Edward Washington II finally gets his graduation ceremony — and another chapter added to his WashU story.
Arts & Culture

A man of letters

Howard Nemerov Letters
A surprising donation of correspondence to WashU Libraries last winter is starting to yield new insights into the life of poet Howard Nemerov.
Awards & Notables

Sauerwein wins national writing award

Kristina Sauerwein, a senior sciences writer in Marketing & Communications at WashU Medicine, has received her fifth Robert G. Fenley Writing Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Advancement

With You: The WashU Campaign

Launched May 1, the campaign invites alumni, parents, donors and friends to partner with WashU and work together to create a more promising future for all.
Physical Sciences

Cosmic ‘lenses’ will better define dark matter

Tansu Daylan
Physicists Bryce Wedig and Tansu Daylan, in Arts & Sciences, calculated how many gravitational lenses will be uncovered by NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope when it begins science operations in 2027. By examining a large population of these lenses, the researchers hope to learn a lot more about the mysterious nature of dark matter.
Space

Why the moon shimmers with shiny glass beads

Using a variety of microscopic analysis techniques not available when the Apollo astronauts first returned samples from the moon, physicist Ryan Ogliore in Arts & Sciences helped unlock the secrets of tiny lunar beads.