Arts & Sciences

Nicole Spangler, a rising senior studying classics and history in WashU Arts & Sciences, received a prestigious Beinecke Scholarship, becoming the first WashU student to win that honor since 2014.

Researchers in Bruce Carlson’s lab at WashU study electric fish to understand the basics of brain sensory processing and prediction.

Julia Coric, a rising senior studying chemistry in WashU Arts & Sciences, has been selected as an Astronaut Scholar for the 2026-27 school year. She is among 79 students from 54 universities chosen for the prestigious award. 

Cancer cells are ravenous eaters. WashU’s Gary Patti is trying to turn their hunger against them.

Tazeen Ali, an assistant professor of religion and politics at Washington University in St. Louis, says Thomas Jefferson’s Quran confronts us with the question of what the founders themselves knew they couldn’t avoid: Will the promises of 1776 stop at the edge of our own religion, or will they extend to Muslims and beyond?

Researchers WashU devised a new high-tech method to generate an enzyme that can break down the misfolded proteins that cause neurodegenerative disease.

At the WashU Board of Trustees meeting May 1, a few faculty members were appointed, promoted or granted tenure.

WashU researchers have found connections between sleep disruption and perinatal anxiety.

Research by Daniel Butler, a professor of political science in WashU Arts & Sciences, suggests that candidates aligned with President Trump are advancing, in part, because disappointed 2024 Republican voters are opting out of this year’s intraparty contests.

B. Duygu Özpolat, a biologist in Arts & Sciences, received a renewal of her Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).