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Jumping for joy

Alumna and future physician Eka Jose has been named a top nine finalist for NCAA Woman of the Year, an elite honor for athletes who have demonstrated excellence in academics, athletics, service and leadership.

Biology

Pursuing reciprocity with plants

In her book, Lessons from Plants, Beronda Montgomery, AB ’94, explains what plants can teach us about the world and about ourselves.

Anthropology & Archaeology

Digging deep

Anna K. Behrensmeyer never set out to be a pioneer, but she has broken new ground in the field of paleontology, supported diversity in STEM and torn down barriers along the way.

Campus & Community

An enduring gift, a lasting responsibility

Helen Webley-Brown, an international student from London, expects to earn a bachelor’s degree in political science in May 2022. In addition to being a Danforth Scholar, Webley-Brown is a Gephardt Institute Civic Scholar and a 2019 Ralph Bunche Award recipient. (Photo: Joe Angeles/Washington University)

Since 1998, the Danforth Scholars program has been transformational to nearly 700 students: their college educations and their careers and lives of service afterward.

Climate & Environment

Hands-on learning to help the planet

Pathfinder Fellows recently canoed the Mississippi River with Big Muddy Adventures. It was part of a project component designed to explore the rivers in, and their impact on, St. Louis. (Photo: Beth Martin)

Through experiential learning and a new environmental analysis major, WashU students prepare to help us understand the questions of climate change.

Business & Entrepreneurship

The art and craft of cider

Alumnus Sam Fitz wants to help us remember and revere our apple culture, starting with apple cider.

Campus & Community

Timeless advice

Chancellor Andrew D. Martin speaks at the memorial service for Chancellor Emeritus William H. Danforth Oct. 2, 2021, in Graham Chapel. (Photo: Whitney Curtis/Washington University)

Chancellor Emeritus William H. Danforth’s words serve as a guiding light through “persistent trials and recurring difficulties.”

Business & Entrepreneurship

The right stuff

C-21 pilot Capt. Chandler Thorpe, 458th Airlift Squadron, and Washington University graduate student Kyle Gero go through a pre-flight checklist. Gero is a graduate student, who is collaborating with Scott’s Elevate innovation team and the squadron on a C-21 cockpit trainer project. The C-21 aircraft inventory went through an avionics upgrade in 2019, however, the training simulator uses the older cockpit configuration.

Working with the Department of Defense, WashU students gain invaluable organizational expertise.

Students

A conversation with Admissions’ Ronné Turner

Grades. Co-curricular activities. Personal essays and videos. These are some of the factors that admissions officers are now evaluating as they build the Class of 2026. No longer on that list: family income. Here, Ronné Turner, vice provost for admissions and financial aid, discusses how the new need-blind policy and other changes will impact the admissions process.

Art & Design

Graduate students win national sculpture honors

Three graduate students from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts have won national honors from the International Sculpture Center, publishers of Sculpture magazine.