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Building a sustainable fashion brand

With creativity and determination, alumna Jillian Shatken is leading her fashion line, Saylor, toward a most important trend: sustainability.

Athletics

Good as gold

Kendall Gretsch, a 2014 graduate of the McKelvey School of Engineering in biomedical engineering is on her way to becoming a summer — and winter — Paralympic legend.

Students

One of the nation’s earliest student films gets new life

The Maid of McMillan, a silent film from 1916, captures university history on and off the screen.

Medicine

Smoothing the path

Medical trailblazer Victoria Fraser, MD, focuses on creating equity in academic medicine.

Asking big questions about the role of science, engineering

The course “Historical and Philosophical Aspects of Science, Engineering and Technology” delves into ethical issues of science and engineering.

Literature

Tending our grief

Alumna Merissa Nathan Gerson has written a heartfelt roadmap to help us navigate the tumultuous, uneven, often unacknowledged terrain of death and loss.

Popular Culture

The impact of Sidney Poitier, a remembrance

Professor Gerald Early writes about discovering Sidney Poitier when he was 8 years old. “Poitier’s character made me proud to be an American,” Early writes.

Campus & Community

02.14.22

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

Medicine

Diabetes, metabolic syndrome in mice treated with novel class of compounds

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine have shown, in mice, that a new class of compounds they developed can improve several aspects of metabolic syndrome. Such conditions often lead to cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide.

Art & Design

Design for good

No other discipline operates at the intersection of innovation and creativity as does fashion, which has the power to change us and our world. Great fashion design not only makes us look better, it helps us be better. Here’s an in-depth look how.