Who Knew WashU?

Question: The Skandalaris Center recently announced the finalists for its annual Global Impact Awards. How much funding did WashU startups receive at the 2024 Innovation & Entrepreneurship Awards?

Answer: D) $125,000. Last year, recent graduate Chiara Munzi and student Izzy Gorton received one of two Global Impact Award grants for their startup. Watch a video about ChiChi Foods.


Congrats to this week’s winner, Shelley Cuervo, who works at WashU Medicine Pathology & Immunology and will receive an “I Knew WashU” luggage tag!


Campus and community news

Jhan Carlos Salazar

WashU biology graduate student Jhan Carlos Salazar, in Arts & Sciences, has made high-impact — and high-altitude — discoveries about the adaptations of lizards in his home country of Colombia. He works with Jonathan Losos, the William H. Danforth Distinguished University Professor.

2024: The year in video

WashU videographers captured the discoveries and perspectives of campus newsmakers. Highlights include a trip to Ecuador where one WashU professor is working to halt hidden hunger, one instructor’s reflections on his Hollywood career and a deep dive into the Mississippi River system.


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