The McKelvey School of Engineering’s Lan Yang has been selected to receive the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award. Given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the award recognizes distinguished scientists in any discipline.
Washington University’s 161st Commencement ceremony, celebrating the approximately 3,800 undergraduate, graduate and professional students earning degrees, begins at 9 a.m. today in its new location on Francis Olympic Field. And for the first time, the ceremony will be followed by a Commencement festival. Mae Jemison, MD, the first woman of color to become a NASA astronaut and to travel into space, will deliver the Commencement address.
The Record has followed five first-year students who happened to sit near each other at a preseason game during Bear Beginnings orientation in August. Here, we check in with them as they wrap up the year.
Washington University in St. Louis has admitted 50 rising high school sophomores to its innovative College Prep Program, a multiyear initiative that prepares high-achieving students with limited financial resources for college.
People with neurofibromatosis type 1 develop tumors on nerves throughout their bodies. Washington University School of Medicine researchers have discovered a way to use the epilepsy drug lamotrigine to stop such tumor growth in mice.
Christopher Stark, associate professor of composition and director of undergraduate studies in music in Arts & Sciences, has won the Elliott Carter Rome Prize in musical composition from the American Academy in Rome.
Washington University’s 161st Commencement is 9 a.m. Friday, May 20, on Francis Olympic Field. The university will award degrees to approximately 3,800 members of the Class of 2022, and Mae Jemison, MD, the first woman of color to become a NASA astronaut and to travel into space, will deliver the Commencement address.
