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Architecture

Big small towns

Cover of "Rebuilding the American Town"
In Rebuilding the American Town, the Sam Fox School’s Patty Heyda helps redefine our understanding of the smaller cities that make up the urban landscape.
Arts & Culture

Documenting humanity

Kartemquin Films, an award-winning nonprofit production company, donated 42 years of physical materials from its archives to WashU Libraries’ Film & Media Archive in 2021. (Photo: Whitney Curtis/WashU)
WashU’s Film & Media Archive is making 42 years of material from Kartemquin Films — the Chicago-based documentary production company — accessible to scholars and the public.
Medicine & Health

The world’s deadliest disease

Christina Stallings, PhD (center), works with Kate Wardenburg (left), an MD/PhD student in the Medical Scientist Training Program, and Ananda Rankin, a graduate student in the Roy and Diana Vagelos Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences, in the Stallings lab at the Steven & Susan Lipstein BJC Institute of Health. (Photo: Matt Miller/WashU Medicine)
WashU scientists are collaborating to unlock secrets of a millennia-old scourge. Efforts may lead to an increased understanding of and improved treatments for tuberculosis, which is once again on the rise.
Aging

Lenze named XPRIZE Healthspan semifinalist 

Eric J. Lenze, MD, and his team at WashU Medicine’s Healthy Mind Lab are among 40 semifinalists in the XPRIZE Healthspan competition awarded $250,000 to study approaches to improve healthy aging.
Chemistry

Jiao named ACS fellow

headshot of Jiao
Feng Jiao, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, was elected a 2025 American Chemical Society fellow.