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Leadership badge builds new skills, recognizes proficiency

the Leaders Cup Challenge, a team-based competition where students develop leadership skills through games and fun activities.

An initiative of the Bauer Leaders Academy, the Leadership Development Badge provides WashU students with new skills through workshops, personalized coaching and applied leadership experiences. The program is available to all undergraduate students at no cost. This month, the Bauer Leaders Academy hosts WashU Leadership Week.

Medicine

Team performs first pediatric ‘domino’ partial heart transplant in Midwest

The St. Louis Children’s Hospital and WashU Medicine Heart Center has become one of only eight programs in the nation to perform a rare, lifesaving procedure in which one donor’s organ is transplanted into a patient, who then becomes a donor for another patient.

Cancer Research

Breast cancer startup founded by WashU Medicine researchers acquired by Lunit

Prognosia, a biotech startup that harnesses AI-driven software to analyze mammograms to improve breast cancer risk prediction, was created by Graham Colditz, MD, DrPH, and Shu (Joy) Jiang, PhD, both at WashU Medicine.

Biology

‘Pirates’ of the Caribbean: The luck and pluck of three-legged lizards

Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and the Georgia Institute of Technology study lizards who have lost limbs to understand how omnipresent the forces of natural selection can be, and why those lizards appear to be resilient.

Chemistry

WashU chemists reveal new insights into ALS-linked protein

Using advanced biophysical and imaging techniques, Meredith Jackrel and her team at Washington University in St. Louis have isolated the protein Matrin-3 to better understand its role in neurodegenerative diseases.

Students

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Images from on and around the WashU campuses.

Biology

Several faculty receive NIH MIRA awards

Several biology and medical researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have earned prestigious awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Literature

Dorothy book longlisted for National Book Award

Lana Lin’s “The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam” has been longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for nonfiction. The book is published by Dorothy, an independent publishing project co-founded by WashU’s Danielle Dutton and Martin Riker.

Obituaries

J. Claude Evans, philosopher, 79

J. Claude Evans, a professor emeritus of philosophy in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died in St. Louis July 26. He was 79.

Architecture

Sam Fox School launches Design Openings in Covenant Blu Grand Center neighborhood

The Sam Fox School has announced the launch of Design Openings. Created in collaboration with the Kranzberg Arts Center and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, this multiyear initiative invites interdisciplinary St. Louis design teams to animate public life in the Covenant Blu Grand Center neighborhood.