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Health and hope in Montana

Tescha Hawley, MSW ’02, founded the Day Eagle Hope Project to help resolve health disparities in her community. (Photo: CNN)

Alumna Tescha Hawley was named a Top Ten CNN Hero in 2023 for her service to the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation and surrounding areas.

Campus & Community

Reconciling with our past

A George Washington statue stands in front of Olin Library. At the time of his death, Washing-ton, for whom the university is named, held 317 people in slavery.

The WashU & Slavery Project is uncovering hard truths about how Washington University’s past intersects with slavery and racial injustice.

Campus & Community

Greetings from WashU

In 2023 and early summer 2024, the WashU Welcome wagon traveled to the following cities: Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis and Washington, D.C. (Illustration: Monica Duwel)

WashU Welcome events bring campus spirit to a city near you.

Campus & Community

Building trust and community

(From left) Emilio Parra-Garcia, Ziyi Zhang, Spencer Annor-Ampofo and Gabriella Jager — students involved with diversity, inclusion, inter-faith and international issues at the university — engage in discussion outside Olin Library. (Photo: Devon Hill/Washington University)

One of WashU’s fundamental missions is to help students develop into the global leaders of tomorrow, by cultivating habits of lifelong learning and critical and ethical thinking.

Public Health

Seeking environments that ‘generate health’

Washington University appoints Sandro Galea as inaugural dean of its planned School of Public Health to work toward healthier futures in St. Louis and globally.

Campus & Community

Preparing leaders

Chancellor Andrew Martin addresses the Class of 2024 during Commencement May 13.

WashU prepares its students to become critical thinkers and inspiring leaders, promoting effective listening and respectful engagement, which are critical to navigating difficult conversations.

Arts & Culture

A new era for the humanities

Stephanie Kirk, director of the Center for the Humanities, joined the WashU faculty in 2003. She is the author of two books about the literature and religion of colonial Mexico. (Photo: Kevin Roberts)

As director of the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, Stephanie Kirk wants to empower humanities graduate students to use their expertise in a range of meaningful careers.

Climate & Environment

Competitive energy

Deko Devins, BS '17, leads St. Lous-based Azimuth Energy. (Photo: Joe Angeles)

Alumnus Deko Devins is on a mission to make solar power more widespread, affordable and accessible.

Cancer Research

Drug bypasses suppressive immune cells to unleash immunotherapy

Immunobiologists Robert Schreiber (left) and Hussein Sultan

Washington University School of Medicine researchers have found that the immune system can be its own worst enemy in the fight against cancer. In a new study in mice, they found that a subset of immune cells inadvertently dampens cancer immunotherapy.

Engineering

Studying how serotonin alters locust’s sense of smell

grasshoppers climbing a model of a serotonin molecule

Researchers at Washington University studied the role of serotonin in altering odor-driven behavioral and neural responses in locusts.