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Campus & Community

Cultivating authentic community

During Bear Beginnings orientation in August 2022, Chancellor Andrew Martin (center) and Anna Gonzalez (green shirt), vice chancellor for student affairs, took first-year students on a food tour of the South Grand neighborhood, because one of the best ways to build community and to get to know a community is through food. (Photo: Michael Thomas)

Creating a greater sense of belonging for our diverse community is our investment in the future.

Advancement

Investing in a competitive advantage

Alumnus Eric Upin serves as a co-chair of Make Way: Our Student Initiative. (Photo: Michael Thomas)

Eric Upin advocates for the power of the endowment to draw talent, expand opportunity and grow the university’s impact.

Campus & Community

Taking tolerance on the road

Alumni Sandy and Karen Teplitzky work hard to combat hate and intolerance through the Mobile Museum of Tolerance. (Photo: Mary Rafferty)

Sandy and Karen Teplitzky are committed to fighting hate through the Mobile Museum of Tolerance.

Campus & Community

For the love of the game

Matt Bayer on the field at Busch Stadium.

Matt Bayer, AB ’11, crunches numbers and analyzes data to help St. Louis’ beloved Cardinals make the best baseball decisions.

Sustainability

A warming world needs better batteries

Peng Bai and his lab team are researching sustainable battery technologies on the smaller scale, those found in our phones and electric cars. (Photos by Whitney Curtis)

For the green energy revolution to be successful, scientists must develop more cost-effective and sustainable battery technologies. Researchers in the McKelvey School of Engineering are spending their energy on just that.

Humanities & Society

Hamilton: A gateway to early American policy and politics

Illustration of "Hamilton" course at WashU.

When Peter Kastor needed a topic for a seminar that teaches history majors how to be historians, he chose history’s man of the moment: Alexander Hamilton.

Disparity

Bringing her folding chair to the table

Nisha Patel, MSW ’98, has spent more than two decades at the forefront of the philanthropic and political landscape, leading and implementing initiatives that increase economic opportunities for families with low income.

Business & Entrepreneurship

Reshoring drug production

Illustrated conceptual map shows the supply chain of pharmaceuticals.

The COVID-19 pandemic opened our eyes to the fragility of our pharmaceutical supply chain. Olin research provides a path forward to secure it.

Arts & Culture

More than a medal

The Center for the Humanities’ biennial International Humanities Prize, which was awarded to Alison Bechdel in 2022, builds community and celebrates excellence in the world of arts and letters.

Politics

Working for the White House

What’s it like to work for the White House? Justin Vail, JD ’12, a policy adviser who works under Ambassador Susan Rice, knows firsthand.