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Performing Arts

Kirill Gerstein and Garrick Ohlsson Feb. 27

Garrick Ohlsson is a “marvel of virtuosity” (New York Review of Books). Kirill Gerstein is “one of today’s smartest musical thinkers” (Limelight.) On Feb. 27, these renowned pianists will join forces for a special one-night-only performance at Washington University in St. Louis.
Medicine

Smoothing the path

Victoria Fraser, MD, in the Bernard Becker Medical Library. (Photo: Matt Miller/Washington University School of Medicine)
Medical trailblazer Victoria Fraser, MD, focuses on creating equity in academic medicine.
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.
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.
Campus & Community

A debt of gratitude

For nearly two years during the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors, nurses and other medical staff have taken care of patients in the intensive care unit at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Here, nurse practitioner Marsha Johnson (blue cap); attending Rachel McDonald, MD (glasses); and other members of the care team confer outside a patient room on Nov. 5, 2020. (Matt Miller/Washington University School of Medicine)
Health-care workers at the Washington University School of Medicine have contributed greatly to regional and world health during the pandemic, and we owe them so much appreciation.