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Washington University announces 2022 Great Artists Series

The Great Artists Series presents intimate recitals with some of the world’s finest classical musicians. The 2022 series will feature soprano Angel Blue; piano duo Kirill Gerstein and Garrick Ohlsson; the Attacca Quartet; and pianist Seong-Jin Cho.

Business & Entrepreneurship

Olin’s MBA entrepreneurship program earns top ranking

Olin Business School took the top spot for the third consecutive year in a ranking of master’s in business administration entrepreneurship programs by business education news outlet Poets & Quants. The online publication unveiled the rankings Oct. 25.

Campus & Facilities

10.25.21

Images from on and around the Washington University campuses.

Campus & Community

Barnes, Loomis win Packard grant for increasing diversity in STEM

Jonathan Barnes and Richard Loomis, both in the Department of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences, won a four-year $90,000 grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation for the recruitment and retention of underrepresented graduate students in chemistry’s doctoral program.

Awards & Notables

Morris receives grant for stem cell research

Samantha A. Morris, associate professor of developmental biology and of genetics at the School of Medicine, received a four-year $1.5 million grant from the New York Stem Cell Foundation.

Engineering

Stretchy, bendy, flexible LEDs

"WUSTL" Spelled out using flexible PeLEDs

Chuan Wang’s lab at the McKelvey School of Engineering has developed a way to print stretchy LEDs on unconventional surfaces using an inkjet printer.

Advancement

Merck Foundation to fund professorships for early-career physician-scientists

Merck Foundation has made a $2 million commitment to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to establish two endowed assistant professorships supporting early-career physician-scientists from populations that are historically underrepresented in medicine and biomedical sciences.

Humanities & Society